Date: Tue, 09 Apr 1996 15:45:00 +0100 From: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Eric.Berenguier@sycomore.fr (Eric Berenguier) Cc: questions@freebsd.com Subject: Re: "Clean flag is wrong" with fsck Message-ID: <8450.829061100@palmer.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 09 Apr 1996 15:11:50 %2B0200." <199604091311.PAA05612@sycgate.sycomore.fr>
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Eric Berenguier wrote in message ID <199604091311.PAA05612@sycgate.sycomore.fr>: > when i use the command fsck i get the following message: > CLEAN FLAG IS WRONG IN SUPERBLOCK > the command i've typed in is: fsck -n > and the filesystem is mounted. Solution: don't run fsck on mounted filesystems. fsck works on the raw device, and may bypass any pending writes in the kernel, thus thinking something is wrong when it isn't (and if it fixes it, all h*ll could break lose). *ONLY* run fsck on unmounted filesystems. Gary
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