Date: Sat, 23 Sep 1995 04:56:54 -0700 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: joshk@tanisys.com (Josh Karnes) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: trouble Message-ID: <199509231156.EAA00307@corbin.Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 22 Sep 95 09:48:58 GMT." <199509220948.JAA00261@hoover.tanisys.com>
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>that was months ago. We still get the same nagging error message every day: > >"CLEAN FLAG IS WRONG IN SUPERBLOCK" >"FIX? [yn]" > >We say "y", then reboot, then fsck and get the same error message. I'm not sure I understand. Are you running fsck every day or something? If so, don't do that. fsck is not intended to be run on mounted filesystems. If you run it and then answer 'yes' to any of the questions, you will certainly cause some form of filesystem corruption (although not probably serious). We used to run fsck in the /etc/daily script with the '-n' (nowrite), but when the foolishness of this was revealed (i.e. when lots of people started complaining about the bogus output), we removed it. It was never useful very useful, often lead to undo concern, and had significant amounts of overhead for people with lots of filesystems. Anyway, fsck should only be run on *unmounted* filesystems - such as the case during system startup. -DG
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