Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1999 11:32:21 -0500 From: Michael Rothenberg <rothenberg@automationonline.com> To: "'Dan Mahoney'" <dmahoney@pe.net> Cc: "'8 BSD Qs'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Shutdown w/ unproper / dismount? Message-ID: <01BF2525.EDDF1120.rothenberg@automationonline.com>
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I'm pretty sure I waited until the correct message appeared, but perhaps I didn't. I want paying a lot of attention because I have done this before without problems. Next time I shutdown I'll pay a lot of attention };) -Michael -----Original Message----- From: Dan Mahoney [SMTP:dmahoney@pe.net] Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 1999 11:23 AM To: rothenberg Subject: Re: Shutdown w/ unproper / dismount? > Then it did something with the disks for / and /swap. I assume this was the > equivalent of scandisk as it gave out a bunch of disk info and > fragmentation numbers. After a while of disk crunching I got the boot > prompt and then the login prompt. All is well. > > So what happened that caused / to not be dismounted properly? You probably didn't wait long enough. You need to wait until the system issues the "press any key to reboot" prompt. Depending on how much disk space you have, what servers you have running, how long the machine has been up, and how fast the CPU is it could take up to a minute for the machine to finish flushing buffers back to disk, etc. Dan Mahoney dmahoney@pe.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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