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Date:      Sun, 10 Jan 1999 14:46:31 +0100 (CET)
From:      Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
To:        "K. Arun" <kar@giasmda.vsnl.net.in>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: HDD refuses to sync before shutting down.
Message-ID:  <XFMail.990110144631.asmodai@wxs.nl>
In-Reply-To: <199901101219.MAA06817@giasmda.vsnl.net.in>

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On 10-Jan-99 K. Arun wrote:
>       I have FreeBSD 2.2.8 installed on 4 Gb. Seagate IDE disk, which is 
> jumpered as the secondary master on my P166-MMX system. The installation
> is
> only a few days old. I recompiled the kernel yesterday, and ever since 
> 'shutdown' does not work properly. The disks refuse to sync. I get a
> series 
> of '7's and '4's and 'giving up'. This implies that a filesystem check is
> performed every time I reboot, rather painful, given that I have a 
> 3966 Mb. /usr partition. What could be the problem ? If this is an FAQ, 

What you forget to mention is what parameters ye are feeding shutdown.

`shutdown' normally is for going to single user mode, after that one has to
do a `reboot' to ensure proper shutdown of the OS.

from man shutdown(2): A terminate signal is then sent to init(8) to bring
the system down to single-user state (depending on above options).  

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Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven    A veil of smoke is what I am,
asmodai(at)wxs.nl                         I wait and I wait...
Network/Security Specialist      <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>;
BSD & picoBSD: The Power to Serve     <http://www.freebsd.org>;

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