According to Maurice Hendrix: While burning my CPU.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have a slight problem with my PCMCIA set-up. It generates OOPSes. I
> informed the PCMCIA "code-owner" about this and he says it's a known problem
> and they're working on it.
> 
> All fine sofar. I can wait. However, Whenever I have had such an OOPS I need
> to reboot to start using the PCMCIA slot again. When I do this fsck gives an
> error that sounds like this (excuse the terrible handwriting):
> 
> /dev/hda4 was not cleanly unmounted, check forced
> Deleted inode 4131 has zero dtime FIXED
> 
> I've traced inode 4131 back to this file: /proc/sys/net/core/rmem_defaults
> 
> After fsck has fixed the problem all seems to work well. But the obvious
> questions arise: What is this file there for? How big is this problem. Am I
> commiting russian roulette? Should I avoid using PCMCIA until the problem is
> fixed?

That all sounds perfectly ok and is exachtly what fsck is supposed to do, it
will not cause any problems, so there is _no_ problem.

When any linux machine is turned of without unmounting filesystems on the
next bootup fsck will always say;

/dev/hdXX was not cleanly unmounted, check forced
and will subsiquently clean things up for you.

> 
> TIA,
> --
> Maurice Hendrix
> 
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> - Still 19 months to go until the next millenium...
> 


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Regards Richard.
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