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From: jeffp@dsot.is.net (Jeff Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: Q: CLEAN FLAG WRONG IN SUPERBLOCK
Date: 19 Feb 1995 03:20:10 GMT
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In article <3htjoi$f39@ra.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de>, brand@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de (Oliver Brand) says:

>Everytime I run fsck (as root), I get the following message:
>
>CLEAN FLAG WRONG IN SUPERBLOCK. FIX ?

[...]

>Maybe I should mention that the error message described above appears for
>ALL filesystems  (/ and /usr).

>Oliver (brand@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de)

I have the same thing in all of the mail that crontab sends to root every night...

BTW, I get these same messages with just a plain-jane bindist installation with NO special files
installed.  I run an IDE (Seagate ST3290A 245mb) with DOS only as /dev/wd0, and a SCSI (Adaptec 
AHA-1522 and a Maxtor 540mb SCSI) as /dev/sd0 with the whole drive allocated for FreeBSD 2.0R.

(BTW: To boot, I have a copy of the install floppy, and I manually change the default bootfile to 
hd(1,a)/kernel - is there any way to change the code on the floppy so that it will default to this
value?)

I thought it was rather odd that I would get the above error as well... PLUS, if I told it to fix,
it would reboot the machine, and then if I ran it again, it would say AGAIN that the flag was
wrong.

Someone said something about mounted/unmounted; I imagine cron is running while the fs is mounted.
So that I would understand.

Digame... :)
jf