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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

> 
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> Christopher Farley
> www.northernbrewer.com
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