some questions about fsck, loader.conf

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On Wednesday 15 March 2006 07:31, Dan Nelson wrote:

> > In rc.conf I have enabled fsck_y_enable="YES" to allow unattended
> > fsck fixes after improper shutdown but I have noticed there are some
> > problems remaining as shown by a read only fsck.  Does the above
> > switch not fix all problems or is it the case the fsck bootup script
> > only does partial tests?
>
> A read-only fsck of a mounted filesystem will never come back clean,
> since the filesystem's mounted :)

I think the question was: why did it find an error,  when fsck had run at 
boot? 

Were you running background checking? And had it completed?  Also there was a 
bug where partitions fixed with background checking still showed a minor 
error when unmounted and checked - check the list for details.