Re: bizarre upgrade problem

[Dirk H Bartley <bartleyd2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Wesley Leonard wrote:
> 
> Well..  I'm trying to upgrade a BSware 6.2 to a 7.0 and it keeps giving me a
> message that some of my filesystems weren't unmounted properly and it recommends
> I boot my system and shut down cleanly.... etc...
> 
> Well, I did shutdown cleanly, severaly times, and it keeps saying that!
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> thankx
> --
> 
> Wesley Leonard
> marshall@pacdemon.org
> 
> http://www.pacdemon.org
> "...I want Linux to be on the cutting edge, and even a bit past the edge,
> because what's past the edge today is what's on your desktop tomorrow."
>         --Linus Torvalds


I'd recommend running e2fsck on all partitions.  You may have to boot from a
floppy or cd to run it on the root partition.  Check the man page.  The option I
use is -c to force it to run a badblocks check.

Dirk