From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jun 16 5:29:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from matrix.42.org (matrix.42.org [194.246.250.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7647154CA for ; Wed, 16 Jun 1999 05:29:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sec@42.org) Received: (from sec@localhost) by matrix.42.org (8.8.8/8.8.5) id OAA24615 (sender ); Wed, 16 Jun 1999 14:29:38 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 14:29:38 +0200 From: Stefan `Sec` Zehl To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: / not properly unmounted ? Message-ID: <19990616142937.A24601@matrix.42.org> X-Current-Backlog: 288 messages References: <19990616033308.A16652@matrix.42.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: ; from Dag-Erling Smorgrav on Wed, Jun 16, 1999 at 02:24:44PM +0200 I-love-doing-this: really Accept-Languages: de, en X-URL: http://sec.42.org/ Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jun 16, 1999 at 02:24:44PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Stefan `Sec` Zehl writes: > > WARNING: / was not properly dismounted > > and a subsquent fsck happens which has no (visible) effect. > > > > I do use 'halt -p' to turn off my box. > > Either don't use 'halt -p', or disable write caching on your disk > drives - or hack the kernel to pause for five seconds or something > before switching off the power. So you mean "halt -p" is supposed to not unmount things cleanly ? If so, what is the sanctioned way of halt&powerdown a box, or for that matter why didn't it happen with earlier make world's ? CU, Sec -- Black holes are where GOD is dividing by zero To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message