F17 upgrade dirty disc dialog

[Rick Stevens]

On 05/30/2012 05:52 AM, Mark Haney wrote:
> On 05/29/2012 02:16 PM, Mark C. Allman wrote:
>
>>
>> Create a file in the root directory ("/") named "forcefsck". This will
>> force fsck to run and clean the file systems when you reboot.
>>
>> The file contains one line and lists the options that you want to pass
>> to fsck. I use "-p" since my filesystem is ext3.
>>
>
> Did that, didn't fix it. In fact, after I get the dialog I went to
> another terminal session on my netbook, unmounted the volume group and
> did a full pvck, vgck and fsck and found no errors.
>
> I'm at a complete loss. This shouldn't even be a problem, IMHO.

Stupid idea, but check the BIOS clock time. This bit me where it kept
complaining that the filesystem was corrupt when in fact, the dates
on several files were in the "future" and fsck wasn't happy.

Make sure the BIOS clock is correct and that your timezone is set correctly.
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