From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 12 01:23:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA05532 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 12 Jun 1998 01:23:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA05427 for ; Fri, 12 Jun 1998 01:22:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id BAA05971; Fri, 12 Jun 1998 01:20:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 01:20:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Jonah Kuo cc: freebsd mailing list Subject: Re: sync In-Reply-To: <357C0320.1D5A31FE@mail.ttn.com.tw> 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 On Mon, 8 Jun 1998, Jonah Kuo wrote: > Hello, > > Recently, everytime I shutdown my 3.0 box, it always give me > messages like > > syncing disks ..... 28 28 28 27 26 .............7 6 5 4 3 giving up > > then when I boot machine again, it checks disks because / dismounted > improperly. > > I had tried > > sync; sync; sync; > > before I shutdown it, but same stituation is still happening, > any hint? > Run the syncs then wait 30 seconds? What type of disks do you have? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message