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Date:      Sat, 7 Sep 2002 23:11:43 +1200
From:      Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
To:        Papp Tamas <tompos@martos.bme.hu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: / was not properly umounted
Message-ID:  <20020907111143.GA67693@grimoire.chen.org.nz>
In-Reply-To: <20020907103835.GA32631@ns>
References:  <20020907103835.GA32631@ns>

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On Sat, Sep 07, 2002 at 12:38:35PM +0200, Papp Tamas wrote:
> hi!
> 
> I get this mesage, even if I try to boot ins single mode. What can I
> do with it?

This happens if your machine wasn't shutdown properly with:

    shutdown -h now

If you let the machine boot multiuser, it should attempt an automatic
fsck of *all* the filesystems, fixing where possible. If it can't fix
your filesystems, you restore from backups... :-(

Cheers.
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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