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

[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
> > > 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 disks and switches itself off after a 'shutdown -p
> > > now', and so I'm not sure what it could be.
> > > 
> > > Has anyone else seen this?
> > 
> > I haven't seen any other reports of this.  Have you tried running a
> > "fsck -f" on the drives?  It's possible there's a latent error that
> > isn't being fixed by bgfsck.
> > 
> 
> 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 isn't snapshotting?
> 
>     laptop# ls -ld /var/.snap
>     drwxrwx---  2 root  operator  512 Oct  2 12:09 /var/.snap

This message appears to be the result of fsck thinking it created a
snapshot, but not actually doing so.  You might try asking over on -fs.

-- Brooks