From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 30 19:36:03 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA14121 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 30 Jun 1996 19:36:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jbrann.dialup.access.net (jbrann.dialup.access.net [166.84.193.118]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA14100 for ; Sun, 30 Jun 1996 19:35:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jbrann@localhost) by jbrann.dialup.access.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id WAA09983; Sun, 30 Jun 1996 22:41:47 -0400 Message-Id: <199607010241.WAA09983@jbrann.dialup.access.net> Subject: Re: Shutdown MSGS To: JSINNOTT@POMONA.EDU (JOHN) Date: Sun, 30 Jun 1996 22:41:47 -2800 (EDT) Cc: questions@freebsd.org (freeq) In-Reply-To: <01I6IXVR2N0Y8WWJPI@POMONA.EDU> from JOHN at "Jun 30, 96 04:16:41 pm" From: John Brann Reply-To: John Brann Organisation: Not while I'm at home X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL13 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk JOHN wrote... > Is this sequence of numbers (the number of blocks that still need to be flushed) > - is this sequence SUPPOSED to countdown - for instance - my machine says > something like syncing disks... 6 6 6 6 6 > then it shuts down. > > John > > Normally, it does. I have seen repeated digits, like this. If your system is happy when it reboots, then there wasn't a problem. Once the buffers have been flushed, the disk is 'synced' which sets the clean flag in the super-block. That doesn't happen until AFTER the cache is flushed. If the clean flag isn't set on boot-up, the boot process runs fsck (and complains) in order to clean up the disk. John -- Beavis and Butt-Head; Vladimir and Estragon for the '90s. finger jbrann@panix.com for pgp public key