From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 12 08:33:45 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA08917 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 08:33:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from giasmda.vsnl.net.in (giasmdb.vsnl.net.in [202.54.6.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id IAA08908 for ; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 08:33:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kar@giasmda.vsnl.net.in) Received: by giasmda.vsnl.net.in (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id WAA17205; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 22:08:30 GMT Message-Id: <199901122208.WAA17205@giasmda.vsnl.net.in> Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 20:27:52 +0530 To: Evgeny Roubinchtein Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HDD refuses to sync before shutting down. Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Operating-System: Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 X-Mailer: mutt 0.93.2i/OfflineMailer 0.3 From: "K. Arun" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jan 11, 1999 at 06:20:55PM -0800, Evgeny Roubinchtein said: | => Do you mount any Linux ext2fs partitions when you run FreeBSD? (perhaps, => automagically, in you /etc/fstab ?). I read that FreeBSD won't sync the => ext2fs, so they have to be umounted before system shutdown. After => forgetting to do this a couple of times, I moved the real shutdown binary => to shutdown.bin, and replaced shutdown with this simple shell script: Hi, Yes, that was the problem. I mounted a couple of Linux partitions during bootup, from /etc/fstab. More as an experiment than anything else really. After umounting them, shutdown and sync'ing proceed cleanly. Thanks for the scripts, but I doubt I'll use them. I suppose it'll be easier for me to mount and umount the ext2 partitions as and when required like removable media. Thanks to everyone who spent time answering my queries, I really appreciate your help. - arun -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- K. Arun | PGP key particulars kar@giasmda.vsnl.net.in | Key Id: 5606B2B1 http://aroon.home.ml.org | Key: $WWWHOME/pgpkey.html -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message