[arch-general] unclean filesystem

christopher floess skeptikos at gmail.com
Sat Jan 23 03:26:47 EST 2010


> Usually you set your system clock to 'localtime' for your unix install since
> windows only uses localtime. If you have your unix install using gmt, then on
> every reboot (at least those where the reboot occurs within a timeframe less
> than your localtime offset from gmt), fsck can get called because the filesystem
> time has changed. Big pain.
>
> If dual-booting, make sure you configure /etc/rc.conf and set:
>
> HARDWARECLOCK="localtime"
>
> If all that is already done -- dunno??
>    

Damn, I got all excited there, but it turns out that it's already in 
there. Yeah, it's really weird. Thanks anyway. Which of the logs might 
this be recorded in?

-- chris


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