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Date:      Sun, 31 May 1998 20:08:27 -0500
From:      "J.A. Terranson" <sysadmin@mfn.org>
To:        "'Eddie Irvine'" <eirvine@tpgi.com.au>, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: fsck - Clean Bit not set. Why not?
Message-ID:  <01BD8CCF.E0B0E450@w3svcs.mfn.org>

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-----Original Message-----
From:	Eddie Irvine [SMTP:eirvine@tpgi.com.au]
Sent:	Sunday, May 31, 1998 7:44 PM
To:	Greg Lehey; Karl Pielorz
Cc:	freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:	Re: fsck - Clean Bit not set. Why not?

The clean bit is not set on a running system - EVER.  That's how the system
knows (when booting) if the system was shut down "cleanly": just about
the last thing done at shutdown time is a series of sync's, followed by
a setting of the clean bit.    If you are running fsck, then the machine is
in use, and therefore, *by definition*, not clean.

J.A. Terranson
sysadmin@mfn.org 



>On Sun, 31 May 1998 at 21:32:38 +1000, Eddie Irvine wrote:
>>
>> Umm, the "Clean bit not set. Fix [y/n]?" comes up
>> even after a clean shutdown.


 
>That's not what you implied in your last message.  Are you sure?
 

Yes. The message comes *any time* 
I manually run fsck. Always has -
I thought it was kind of a feature.


Eddie.


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