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Date:      Tue, 30 Dec 2003 23:46:40 -0500
From:      Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr>
To:        Esa Karkkainen <ejk@iki.fi>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 5.1-R-p11 unable to "sync disks" when shutting down
Message-ID:  <20031231044640.GA2701@online.fr>
In-Reply-To: <20031229164130.GA797@pp.htv.fi>

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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



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