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Date:      Thu, 9 Mar 1995 15:05:56 -0500
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        jg@euronet.nl (Jan_Guldemond)
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Halt
Message-ID:  <9503092005.AA12531@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199503090952.KAA17381@mail.euronet.nl>
References:  <199503090952.KAA17381@mail.euronet.nl>

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<<On Thu, 9 Mar 1995 10:52:42 +0100, jg@euronet.nl (Jan_Guldemond) said:

> 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

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