Date: Sun, 01 May 2005 22:01:13 -0500 From: David Scheidt <dmschei@attglobal.net> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: Steven Hartland <killing@multiplay.co.uk> Subject: Re: 5.4-STABLE corrupting fs on shutdown -p now? Message-ID: <427597F9.7000608@attglobal.net> In-Reply-To: <20050502025305.GA29984@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <007901c54ec0$14bb3e30$b3db87d4@multiplay.co.uk> <20050502025305.GA29984@xor.obsecurity.org>
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Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 03:38:49AM +0100, Steven Hartland wrote: >>Why would FS's be being corrupted by "shutdown -p now" where >>as "reboot" doesnt seem to? > > > Maybe the machine is being powered down before your disks have > finished writing their data to disk. > My ThinkPad has done this several times. It normally boots, but complains that filesystems aren't clean. I can't reliably reproduce it. As I'm not normally beating on the disk before I power it off, I can't see that it wouldn't have time to write the data. (The buffer counts are always less than 5). It didn't do this on the mid-feb. stable I was running until recently. > Kris
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