Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2001 08:33:52 +0200 (CEST) From: Micke Josefsson <mj@isy.liu.se> To: Christopher Farley <chris@northernbrewer.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fsck weirdness? Message-ID: <XFMail.010806083352.mj@isy.liu.se> In-Reply-To: <20010803140533.A64411@northernbrewer.com>
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On 03-Aug-01 Christopher Farley wrote: > Christopher Farley (chris@northernbrewer.com) wrote: > >> When I run fsck in single user mode, it checks the drive and reports a >> clean filesystem. (I'm running fsck -f in single user mode.) >> >> Running it in multi-user mode, however, I get the output, attached below. > > I'm going to try and answer my own question, with the hopes that if I'm > wrong, someone will correct me. > > Active filesystems are inherently dirty. Running fsck on an active, > mounted filesystem may produce a list of incorrect block counts, > unallocated inodes, etc. It is nothing to worry about. Precisely. Only run fsck on an unmounted fs. /M > > -- > Christopher Farley > www.northernbrewer.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message ---------------------------------- Michael Josefsson, MSEE mj@isy.liu.se This message was sent by XFMail running on FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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