From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 30 20:46:48 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E126016A4CE for ; Tue, 30 Dec 2003 20:46:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from papagena.rockefeller.edu (user-0cdfenm.cable.mindspring.com [24.215.186.246]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 82C5743D5E for ; Tue, 30 Dec 2003 20:46:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rsidd@online.fr) Received: (qmail 2714 invoked by uid 1002); 31 Dec 2003 04:46:40 -0000 Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 23:46:40 -0500 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Esa Karkkainen Message-ID: <20031231044640.GA2701@online.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031229164130.GA797@pp.htv.fi> X-Operating-System: Linux 2.4.23 i686 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 04:55:56 -0800 cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.1-R-p11 unable to "sync disks" when shutting down X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 04:46:49 -0000 Esa Karkkainen wrote: > For some reason my home PC is occasionally unable to sync to disk when I > run "shutdown -p now". ... > The only hard disk has four slices. ad0s1 has w2k, Is the w2k slice mounted? I find (and others have reported) that the disks don't sync with a linux ext2 slice mounted (even if it's mounted read-only) unless I unmount it before shutting down. Perhaps it's a related issue. Rahul