Date: Mon, 1 Jul 1996 14:07:03 GMT From: James Raynard <fqueries@jraynard.demon.co.uk> To: jbrann@panix.com Cc: JSINNOTT@pomona.edu, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Shutdown MSGS Message-ID: <199607011407.OAA00915@jraynard.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <199607010241.WAA09983@jbrann.dialup.access.net> (message from John Brann on Sun, 30 Jun 1996 22:41:47 -2800 (EDT))
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> > Is this sequence of numbers (the number of blocks that still need to be flushed) > > - is this sequence SUPPOSED to countdown - for instance - my machine says > > something like syncing disks... 6 6 6 6 6 > > then it shuts down. > > Normally, it does. I have seen repeated digits, like this. If your > system is happy when it reboots, then there wasn't a problem. Hmm. A couple of weeks ago, I started getting messages like syncing disks... 8 6 4 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3, giving up and assumed it was a bug in the VM code (I had -current on this disk). Two days later the disk died in a flurry of medium errors. 8-( Obviously it had started developing bad sectors and the first one happened to be in the swap partition. So if you ever see this message, start backing up immediately! -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland james@jraynard.demon.co.uk http://www.freebsd.org/~jraynard/
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