Date: Sun, 7 Apr 1996 00:59:49 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: eischen@vigrid.com (Daniel Eischen) Cc: freebsd@hopf.math.purdue.edu, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, current@freefall.freebsd.org, wilker@hopf.math.purdue.edu Subject: Re: Clean reboot on current Message-ID: <199604061529.AAA04291@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <9604061456.AA06406@pcnet1.pcnet.com> from "Daniel Eischen" at Apr 6, 96 09:56:27 am
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Daniel Eischen stands accused of saying: > > > > 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. Ah, that would probably be a bug in the e2fs, and should be reported so it can be fixed. Please file a pr on it! > Dan Eischen -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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