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Date:      Fri, 12 Jun 1998 01:20:49 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Jonah Kuo <jonahkuo@mail.ttn.com.tw>
Cc:        freebsd mailing list <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: sync
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980612012028.11999j-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <357C0320.1D5A31FE@mail.ttn.com.tw>

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On Mon, 8 Jun 1998, Jonah Kuo wrote:

> Hello,
> 
>     Recently, everytime I shutdown my 3.0 box, it always give me
> messages like
> 
> syncing disks ..... 28 28 28 27 26 .............7 6 5 4 3 giving up
> 
> then when I boot machine again, it checks disks because / dismounted
> improperly.
> 
> I had tried
> 
> sync; sync; sync;
> 
> before I shutdown it, but same stituation is still happening,
> any hint?
> 

Run the syncs then wait 30 seconds?  What type of disks do you have?

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major


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