From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jun 16 5:39:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from angel.double-barrel.be (mail.double-barrel.be [194.7.102.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33441150B7 for ; Wed, 16 Jun 1999 05:39:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mvergall@double-barrel.be) Received: from ws3.double-barrel.be (ws3.double-barrel.be [194.7.102.30]) by angel.double-barrel.be (8.9.1b+Sun/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA27815; Wed, 16 Jun 1999 14:38:46 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (mvergall@localhost) by ws3.double-barrel.be (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian/GNU) with SMTP id OAA07342; Wed, 16 Jun 1999 14:38:40 +0200 X-Authentication-Warning: ws3.double-barrel.be: mvergall owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 14:38:40 +0200 (MEST) From: "Michael C. Vergallen" To: Stefan `Sec` Zehl Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: / not properly unmounted ? In-Reply-To: <19990616142937.A24601@matrix.42.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Have a look at the shutdown man page. This should answer your question. Michael --- Michael C. Vergallen A.k.A. Mad Mike, Sportstraat 28 http://www.double-barrel.be/mvergall/ B 9000 Gent ftp://ftp.double-barrel.be/pub/linux/ Belgium tel : 32-9-2227764 Fax : 32-9-2224976 On Wed, 16 Jun 1999, Stefan `Sec` Zehl wrote: > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message