From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 29 04:06:05 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61E9D16A4CE for ; Fri, 29 Oct 2004 04:06:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1653043D31 for ; Fri, 29 Oct 2004 04:06:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-160-246-51.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.160.246.51]) by pi.codefab.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i9T45vFg086864 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 29 Oct 2004 00:05:59 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4181C1A2.2040707@mac.com> Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 00:05:54 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stefek Zaba References: <20041028185347.GA1917@zaba-s-2.hpl.hp.com> In-Reply-To: <20041028185347.GA1917@zaba-s-2.hpl.hp.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.86.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.7 required=5.5 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.64 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.64 (2004-01-11) on pi.codefab.com cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: shutdown(8): supposed to dismount all FSes? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 04:06:05 -0000 Stefek Zaba wrote: > Dumb question, which "man 8 shutdown" and cousins (halt, reboot) don't > seem to answer: is incanting "shutdown" expected to unmount all mounted > filesystems, even those mounted "interactively" (i.e. not listed in > /etc/fstab)? Yes, shutdown is supposed to unmount all of the filesystems cleanly. However.... > I ask because I managed to embarass myself during a trial install of > FreeBSDS-5.3RC1 (my first outing with FreeBSD, though I've too many > years with HP-UX, Debian, RedHat, and recently OpenBSD). I'd mounted > an ext3 partition for a quick bit of editing (that's where my grub > config files were), using the built-in ext2fs. ...I recall that there are some issues handling ext2fs filesystems cleanly during the shutdown process, which tend to cause them to not be unmounted properly. It's considered a bug. -- -Chuck