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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uknet!festival!castle.ed.ac.uk!richard From: richard@castle.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) Subject: Re: what is fs_clean for? References: <28fmis$12b9@acsc.com> <28hoa4$ccg@umd5.umd.edu> Message-ID: <CEDD2v.9oB@festival.ed.ac.uk> Sender: news@festival.ed.ac.uk (remote news read deamon) Organization: University of Edinburgh Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1993 10:56:54 GMT Lines: 18 In article <28hoa4$ccg@umd5.umd.edu> mark@elea.umd.edu (Mark Sienkiewicz) writes: >>During the mount time, what should be done if the file system is not clean? >RIGHT: Mount it anyway. This makes sense. (It might reasonably print out a warning message.) Remember, when you're booting the system rc will check the flag and run fsck if the disk is dirty. If you're running a shell script, say, it can check before mounting. If you're doing it by hand, you can check. There's no need to make mount enforce it. -- Richard -- "For thousands of years, [homoeopathic magic] was known to the sorcerors of ancient India, Babylon and Egypt, as well as of Greece and Rome, and at this day it is still resorted to by cunning and malignant savages in Australia, Africa and Scotland." - J G Frazer, The Golden Bough