Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 09:48:35 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_K=F6nig?= <bkoenig@cs.tu-berlin.de> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: unmounting a filesystem safely that doesn't exist anymore Message-ID: <20060611234835.GC739@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <448B0419.3090303@cs.tu-berlin.de> References: <448B0419.3090303@cs.tu-berlin.de>
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On Sat, 2006-Jun-10 19:40:41 +0200, Bjrn Knig wrote: >I did a mistake: I unplugged my digital camera accidentally before I >unmounted the filesystem. *doh* This happens very often, because I'm >very scatterbrained. =) Your best solution may be to use mtools (ports/emulators/mtools) rather than mounting the filesystem. >changed ad hoc. I just want to know if somebody knows a workaround or >small trick that prevents the other filesystems from being unclean on >next boot-up. The only way to do this is to have all the other filesystems mounted read-only. The "filesystem clean" flag is part of the superblock and is cleared when a filesystem is mounted. It will be set only if the filesystem is cleanly unmounted. -- Peter Jeremy
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