From: mccauleyba@vms1.bham.ac.uk (Brian McCauley) Subject: Re: e2fsck problems Date: 8 Aug 1993 15:49:52 GMT
In article <1993Aug6.184819.3365@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, lmulcahy@nyx.cs.du.edu (Larry Mulcahy) writes:
> Overcome by nausea on 30 Jul 93 15:03:23 GMT, sheldon@iastate.edu (Steve
> Sheldon) retched up these words:
>
>> There must be an updated e2fsck, cause this one isn't working right.
>
> It looks to me like e2fsck never marks the file system as clean. For
> example, yesterday I umounted my /usr partition, ran e2fsck on it and
> then mounted it, and still got the message that it was dirty.
>
I belive it only marks a fs as clean if you ask it to repair it. The
check only operation does not require write access to the partition
so cannot clear the dirty flag. I don't think this is elegant but
I think it is the current state of affairs.
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