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From: tom@haven.uniserve.com (Tom Samplonius)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: fsck *always* complains 'CLEAN FLAG IS WRONG IN SUPERBLOCK'
Date: 18 May 1995 01:28:13 GMT
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In article <betts.20.14F77F52@onramp.net>, betts@onramp.net says...
>
>Just reinstalled FreeBSD 2.0 from CD to see if that made a difference, but the 
>problem persists.
>
>Whenever /etc/daily runs, *every* partition generates the same CLEAN FLAG IS
>WRONG IN SUPERBLOCK error (output from /etc/daily is included below).  The 
>same is true if I run fsck manually.

  The clean flag is always off on filesystems in use.  fsck is only really useful
for checking filesystems on bootup.

Tom