From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 15 08:28:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA19743 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 08:28:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from falconsoft.com (guff@ns.falconsoft.com [206.112.36.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA19694 for ; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 15:28:15 GMT (envelope-from guff@falconsoft.com) Received: from localhost (guff@localhost) by falconsoft.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id LAA12350 for ; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 11:28:11 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from guff@falconsoft.com) Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 11:28:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Gustafson To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Something in the way she boots... In-Reply-To: <3534BF56.EED2808B@tdx.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG another side-note to this would be that the correct way to shut down a FreeBSD machine would be by typing 'halt' at the command prompt as root. tim On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Karl Pielorz wrote: > It means the system went down with out 'dismounting' the root file system > ('/') - It's a bit like pulling the plug on your Windows '95 computer before > it gets to the 'it's now safe to shutdown' screen... > > It doesn't normally do any damage - you'll probably see it fix itself > (running a program called 'fsck') as the system comes back up... > > Regards, > > Karl Pielorz > > Matthew Taylor wrote: > > > > I get a warning that I don't really understand on boot right after the > > devices get detected/loaded: > > > > WARNING: / was not properly dismounted > > > > What the heck is this? > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message