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Date:      Mon, 1 Jun 1998 22:44:57 +1000
From:      "Eddie Irvine" <eirvine@tpgi.com.au>
To:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: fsck - Clean Bit not set. Why not?
Message-ID:  <01bd8d5b$15b3fee0$a41a1acb@gretchen>

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Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> wrote:


>In the last episode (Jun 01), Eddie Irvine said:
>>
>> someone (Eddie, please keep attributions) said:
>>>
>>> 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.
> 
>You're not running fsck on a r/w mounted partition, are you?  

 'Fraid I've kind of always done it that way....

>You should only run fsck on / from single-user mode right after a reboot,
>and for all other partitions you should unmount before fscking.

Can I still claim to be a pathetic newbie 
after 9 months? I like to think so.
Glad to have gotten to the bottom of this.
Thanks all for the tip!

> -Dan Nelson
> dnelson@emsphone.com
>


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