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From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: Q: CLEAN FLAG WRONG IN SUPERBLOCK
Date: 17 Feb 1995 10:10:33 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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Two possibilities:

1. You aren't shutting your system down properly before you power it off.

2. You're running 1.x filesystems on a 2.x system.  See man fsck, and in
   particular the -c2 option.