Drives always come up dirty after shutdown on 6.2-PRERELEASE.

2006-09-29 Thread Josef Karthauser
Hey guys, I'm not really on the ball with reading the lists now-a-days, and so I've not idea whether this has been discussed already. On my laptop running 6.2-PRERELEASE the drives always mount dirty, which suggests that they are not being shutdown clean; however the machine always syncs the disk

Re: Drives always come up dirty after shutdown on 6.2-PRERELEASE.

2006-09-29 Thread Brooks Davis
On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 02:16:12PM +0100, Josef Karthauser wrote: > Hey guys, > > I'm not really on the ball with reading the lists now-a-days, and so > I've not idea whether this has been discussed already. > > On my laptop running 6.2-PRERELEASE the drives always mount dirty, which > suggests t

Re: Drives always come up dirty after shutdown on 6.2-PRERELEASE.

2006-09-29 Thread Josef Karthauser
On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 09:44:07AM -0500, Brooks Davis wrote: > > On my laptop running 6.2-PRERELEASE the drives always mount dirty, which > > suggests that they are not being shutdown clean; however the machine > > always syncs the disks and switches itself off after a 'shutdown -p > > now', and s

Re: Drives always come up dirty after shutdown on 6.2-PRERELEASE.

2006-09-30 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 15:58 +0100, Josef Karthauser wrote: > On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 09:44:07AM -0500, Brooks Davis wrote: > > > On my laptop running 6.2-PRERELEASE the drives always mount dirty, which > > > suggests that they are not being shutdown clean; however the machine > > > always syncs th

Re: Drives always come up dirty after shutdown on 6.2-PRERELEASE.

2006-10-01 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 02:17:17PM +0930, Wayne Sierke wrote: > If you run fsck ("fsck -n" is sufficient) without specifying a file > system so that it reads the list of which file systems to check from > fstab, does it check all those with a non-zero Pass#? Taken from fstab(5) manpage: The

Re: Drives always come up dirty after shutdown on 6.2-PRERELEASE.

2006-10-01 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Sun, 2006-10-01 at 02:45 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 02:17:17PM +0930, Wayne Sierke wrote: > > If you run fsck ("fsck -n" is sufficient) without specifying a file > > system so that it reads the list of which file systems to check from > > fstab, does it check all tho

Re: Drives always come up dirty after shutdown on 6.2-PRERELEASE.

2006-10-02 Thread Josef Karthauser
On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 09:44:07AM -0500, Brooks Davis wrote: > On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 02:16:12PM +0100, Josef Karthauser wrote: > > Hey guys, > > > > I'm not really on the ball with reading the lists now-a-days, and so > > I've not idea whether this has been discussed already. > > > > On my lap

Re: Drives always come up dirty after shutdown on 6.2-PRERELEASE.

2006-10-02 Thread Brooks Davis
On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 12:10:10PM +0100, Josef Karthauser wrote: > On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 09:44:07AM -0500, Brooks Davis wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 02:16:12PM +0100, Josef Karthauser wrote: > > > Hey guys, > > > > > > I'm not really on the ball with reading the lists now-a-days, and so >

Re: Drives always come up dirty after shutdown on 6.2-PRERELEASE.

2006-10-02 Thread Josef Karthauser
On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 09:58:04AM -0500, Brooks Davis wrote: > > > > Closer investigation reveals that I've getting this error: > > > > laptop# fsck -B /var > > background fsck lacks a snapshot > > > > So, that explains it. The background fsck isn't running. So, any ideas > > why it i