Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 20:27:52 +0530 From: "K. Arun" <kar@giasmda.vsnl.net.in> To: Evgeny Roubinchtein <eroubinc@u.washington.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HDD refuses to sync before shutting down. Message-ID: <199901122208.WAA17205@giasmda.vsnl.net.in>
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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
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