From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 9 12:06:09 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id MAA20802 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 9 Mar 1995 12:06:09 -0800 Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id MAA20793 for ; Thu, 9 Mar 1995 12:06:07 -0800 Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; id AA12531; Thu, 9 Mar 1995 15:05:56 -0500 Date: Thu, 9 Mar 1995 15:05:56 -0500 From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <9503092005.AA12531@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: jg@euronet.nl (Jan_Guldemond) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Halt In-Reply-To: <199503090952.KAA17381@mail.euronet.nl> References: <199503090952.KAA17381@mail.euronet.nl> Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk < Hi, > When shutting down the FreeBSD-machine I get: > *** syncing disks... done > *** > *** The operating system has halted. > *** Please press any key to reboot. > But... sometimes after syncing disks... I get three numbers. What do > these mean? It's telling you how many unsaved buffers are left after each sync(), so you know how much progress has been made. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant