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From: blymn@awadi.com.au (Brett Lymn)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: Q: CLEAN FLAG WRONG IN SUPERBLOCK
Date: 02 Mar 1995 05:36:42 GMT
Organization: AWA Defence Industries
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In-reply-to: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu's message of 17 Feb 1995 10:10:33 GMT
>>>>> "Jordan" == Jordan K Hubbard <jkh@violet.berkeley.edu> writes:
In article <3i1smp$sq1@agate.berkeley.edu> jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes:
Jordan> Two possibilities: 1. You aren't shutting your system down
Jordan> properly before you power it off.
Jordan> 2. You're running 1.x filesystems on a 2.x system. See
Jordan> man fsck, and in particular the -c2 option.
THREE possibilities (nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition ;-)
You are fsck'ing a live file system and the clean flag will nearly
always be unset. You should not really try an repair a file system
that is in use!
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Brett Lymn