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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? Endangered Freedom ? Post 302534402 by Neo on Monday 27th of June 2011 10:02:06 PM
Old 06-27-2011
As bakunin points out; systems, by the very nature of creating one (a system) are imperfect. A system creates a boundary around a set of knowledge; a system creates a boundary around acceptance and understanding; a system creates a set of rules and policies and definitions and semantic understanding; a system creates a set of control mechanisms (or a need for such controls); and the list goes on and on about the causality of systems.

In other words, when we take the sum total of human knowledge and experience, and decide to take a subset, partition it (draw a line around it), label it, define it, advocate it, and operate within the system boundaries; we limit knowledge; this is true of all systems. There are no perfect systems, of course, because all things, especially systems, have the qualities of duality (i.e. positive and negative; good and evil; creation and destruction; beautiful and ugly).

This also means that to enter into, or accept and strongly advocate, a system; anti-knowledge is created, because there are systems and there are "anti-systems". What remains is change, evolution, revolution (breaking rigid systems), adaptation; but most systems, by definition, are resistant to anything that is not defined by the system boundary (or boundaries).

I do realize that this reply could seem somewhat abstract; and my closing thoughts are that too many of us discuss and operate within system boundaries without thinking about system theory and understanding the inherent limitations and boundaries of all systems; and also the fact that all systems, by the very nature of system designs, tend to create "anti-systems".
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fsclean(1M)															       fsclean(1M)

NAME
fsclean - determine the shutdown status of HFS file systems SYNOPSIS
[special ...] DESCRIPTION
The command determines the shutdown status of the HFS file system specified by special or, in the absence of special, the file systems listed in of type with the or options set. All optional fields in must be present for to be able to check each file system. reads the superblock to determine whether the file system's last shutdown was done correctly, and returns one of the following values: All of the checked file systems were shut down correctly. One or more checked file systems were not shutdown correctly, implying that should be run (see fsck(1M)). Other error (such as The command is usually silent. Options Check quotas. Instead of checking the file system shutdown status, checks the validity of disk quota statistics. This option is useful for determining whether should be run (see quotacheck(1M)). If special is not provided, then all file systems in of type with the (or and options are checked. Retry open on a device special file for up to 6 minutes. Be verbose. Prints the status of each file system checked. DEPENDENCIES
only operates on HFS file systems. AUTHOR
was developed by HP. FILES
Default list of file systems to check SEE ALSO
dumpfs(1M), fsck(1M), fsck_hfs(1M), mount(1M), quotacheck(1M), quotacheck_hfs(1M), reboot(1M), fstab(4). fsclean(1M)
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