I could be completely wrong about this, but you might have
to shutdown, or at least sync the drive for the file system
to be marked clean. 

Or it could be something completely different.

Brad

> On Mon, 7 Apr 1997, Jason Thorpe wrote:
> 
> >  > Fine by me. What I'm unhappy with is the operating system apparently
> >  > deliberately going out of its way to make things difficult, and not
> >  > going even the slightest bit out of its way to make things easier.
> >  > I'm not asking for a lot here.
> > 
> > FWIW, I happen to agree with you... fsck can be a mite intimidating, esp.
> > considering that when you're interacting with it, you're typically thinking
> > "Oh, sh*t.  I hope I didn't lose _too_ much..."
> 
> Speaking of which, I had a fight with fsck last night myself.  So far,
> it's still winning.  Essentially, mount keeps telling me that /dev/sd0a
> isn't clean, and that I should run fsck(8).  So I boot into single-user
> mode, do an fsck -f, it chugs away, and happily marks both my filesystems
> clean.  I then try to mount the drives, and mount again tells me that
> /dev/sd0a isn't clean.
> 
> Anybody have any advice?  Is my disk going bad?
> 
> -Bill
> 
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