On Tue, Dec 04, 2018 at 12:26:53AM +0100, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > Further question: if I see "Flushing disk caches" but still I get a dirty > file system when I reboot on the T30 and R51 - why?
The dirty filesystem thing is a nice trick: if you mount rw it will mark a bit as 'dirty', and if it unmounts, it'll clear the bit. Then if anything other than proper, clean shutdown happens (where unmount will happen) it knows it should fsck.
