Date: Sat, 6 Apr 96 09:56:27 EST From: eischen@vigrid.com (Daniel Eischen) To: freebsd@hopf.math.purdue.edu, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au Cc: current@freefall.freebsd.org, wilker@hopf.math.purdue.edu Subject: Re: Clean reboot on current Message-ID: <9604061456.AA06406@pcnet1.pcnet.com>
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> Clarence Wilkerson stands accused of saying: > > When I do a few syncs and a "reboot" command, I get a string of > > numbers like > > > > 3 3 3 3 3 3 "giving up" > > The '3' indicates the number of disk buffers that are waiting to be > written. Do you get the same result with 'shutdown -r now'? > If not, then you probably have an application that's unhappy about being > nuked. Like a Linux partition that is still mounted at reboot time? That's what I get if I fail to umount the Linux partition before rebooting. Booting Linux (eek! I hate to admit it) then requires a file system check. Dan Eischen eischen@pcnet.com
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