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 http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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