From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 9 16:56: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BCCC14D9D for ; Mon, 9 Aug 1999 16:56:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA07934; Mon, 9 Aug 1999 16:52:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 9 Aug 1999 16:52:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Kenneth Legg Cc: FreeBSD Subject: Re: umount In-Reply-To: <37AE1C01.A9A07BF5@mail.wvnet.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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