Jon Buller wrote:

> My Sparc20 doesn't go down very often, but lately it has not been
> cleaning the disks after the local power company decides I can be
> without for a few seconds.
> 
> So what just about always happens in this case is that the machine
> comes up, and I get stuff like this:
> 
> Jun  5 17:45:37 ra /netbsd: /dev/sd0a: file system not clean (fs_clean=4); please fsck(8)
> 
> Rebooting the machine into single-user and typing fsck -p results
> in no output, no appearent actions, and a quick new shell prompt.
> Then typing fsck /dev/sd0a goes through the whole process of actually
> checking, asking my what I want to do with all those blocks and
> files, etc.  Then everything is fine.  Note that I do not get
> messages saying the disk(s) is clean, not checking...

Are the fsck pass numbers ok in your /etc/fstab?

Simon.
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