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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD2.0 Clean Flag in Superblock
Date: 25 Aug 1995 10:09:03 +0200
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Ferry Winarta <ferryw@softplus.com.au> wrote:
>
> I tried to halt, using shutdown -h now, this morning. Rebooted. Then
> fsck -n on single user mode, it was fine. In multi user mode,
> tried fsck -n, still gave me the same message.
>
> I did fsck and gave "y", rebooted. Did fsck -n again in multi user mode,
> still gave me the same message.
NOOOO! DON'T!
Please say after me:
I should never run fsck on a live file system.
I should never run fsck on a live file system.
I should never run fsck on a live file system.
...
You're risking your data by entering `y' to any question when running
fsck on a file system that is mounted read-write. So don't do it, and
to avoid the confusion, drop the entire fsck line out of your
/etc/daily. It's useless crap that has been eliminated since.
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)