From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 10 05:39:31 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA21509 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 05:39:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp01.wxs.nl (smtp01.wxs.nl [195.121.6.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA21492 for ; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 05:39:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from daemon.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.56.231]) by smtp01.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAA633B; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 14:38:55 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199901101219.MAA06817@giasmda.vsnl.net.in> Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 14:46:31 +0100 (CET) Organization: Ninth Circle Enterprises From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: "K. Arun" Subject: RE: HDD refuses to sync before shutting down. Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 10-Jan-99 K. Arun wrote: > I have FreeBSD 2.2.8 installed on 4 Gb. Seagate IDE disk, which is > jumpered as the secondary master on my P166-MMX system. The installation > is > only a few days old. I recompiled the kernel yesterday, and ever since > 'shutdown' does not work properly. The disks refuse to sync. I get a > series > of '7's and '4's and 'giving up'. This implies that a filesystem check is > performed every time I reboot, rather painful, given that I have a > 3966 Mb. /usr partition. What could be the problem ? If this is an FAQ, What you forget to mention is what parameters ye are feeding shutdown. `shutdown' normally is for going to single user mode, after that one has to do a `reboot' to ensure proper shutdown of the OS. from man shutdown(2): A terminate signal is then sent to init(8) to bring the system down to single-user state (depending on above options). --- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven A veil of smoke is what I am, asmodai(at)wxs.nl I wait and I wait... Network/Security Specialist BSD & picoBSD: The Power to Serve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message