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Date:      Tue, 12 Aug 1997 19:01:01 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Paul Dekkers <psd@worldaccess.nl>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ext2 filesystem crashed
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970812185949.252P-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.970812104511.678A-100000@gromit.nev.ml.org>

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On Tue, 12 Aug 1997, Paul Dekkers wrote:

> Recently my ext2 filesystem crashed, and I've recovered it now, but it
> seems not a good idea to mount ext2fs disks under FreeBSD am I right?

I can't say the ext2fs support is as bulletproof as it is in say Linux.

> Another thing I saw what also might be the reason is that FreeBSD didn't
> unmount my root and other drives correctly. Each time I got the message
> "root device not clean dismounted" or something like that.

"WARNING: / was not dismounted properly." 

> Is my shutdown script bad? I shut my computer down using Ctrl-Alt-Del
> (maybe that's wrong...)

Try running 'shutdown -r now' at the command prompt instead. Ctrl-Alt-Del
should call reboot(8) but it's possible your machine is doing something
wierd with it.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major
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