From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 12 19:01:20 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA09226 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 12 Aug 1997 19:01:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts7-line11.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA09213 for ; Tue, 12 Aug 1997 19:01:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA00389; Tue, 12 Aug 1997 19:01:02 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 19:01:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Paul Dekkers cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ext2 filesystem crashed In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo