Re: Two newbie's question

[Shaggy Im-erbtham]

>Before you power off the machine, login as root and do
>
>shutdown -h now
>
>This will allow the filesystem to complete any pending writes and
>unmount itself cleanly.  It doesn't take long, and will save you a lot
>of time on your next boot.
>

This is exactly what I do. However, one of the shutdown messages,
immediately before "System halted" is

On the next boot fsck will be FORCED.

Sound *as if* something is wrong although next boot-up is always OK. Is
there anything wrong or am I being paranoid??

TIA,
Shaggy
Bangkok, Thailand