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Date:      Mon, 9 Aug 1999 16:52:12 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Kenneth Legg <sce04020@mail.wvnet.edu>
Cc:        FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: umount
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908091651370.1164-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <37AE1C01.A9A07BF5@mail.wvnet.edu>

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On Sun, 8 Aug 1999, Kenneth Legg wrote:

> I come from the win95 environment and have the problem of not
> dismounting my cdrom and floppy when shutting down, and was wondering
> what are the affects of not dismounting a drive.

. Changes aren't flushed from the caches.
. Anything that attempts to access the missing drive will hang.
. Some processes may actually panic the kernel.

In short: dismount your disks!

Doug White                               
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
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