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Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2002 23:11:43 +1200
From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
To: Papp Tamas <tompos@martos.bme.hu>
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: / was not properly umounted
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On Sat, Sep 07, 2002 at 12:38:35PM +0200, Papp Tamas wrote:
> hi!
> 
> I get this mesage, even if I try to boot ins single mode. What can I
> do with it?

This happens if your machine wasn't shutdown properly with:

    shutdown -h now

If you let the machine boot multiuser, it should attempt an automatic
fsck of *all* the filesystems, fixing where possible. If it can't fix
your filesystems, you restore from backups... :-(

Cheers.
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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