From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 2 8:31:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from polaris.shore.net (polaris.shore.net [207.244.124.105]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A4C71571C for ; Tue, 2 Nov 1999 08:31:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rothenberg@automationonline.com) Received: from shore.shore.net [192.233.85.136] by polaris.shore.net with esmtp (Exim) id 11igq1-0002oY-00; Tue, 2 Nov 1999 11:31:13 -0500 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by shore.shore.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with UUCP id LAA13003; Tue, 2 Nov 1999 11:31:08 -0500 (EST) Received: from baffle. automationonline.com by slider.automationonline.com via SMTP (911016.SGI/911001.SGI) for shore!freebsd.org!freebsd-questions id AA21371; Tue, 2 Nov 99 11:36:28 -0500 Received: by localhost with Microsoft MAPI; Tue, 2 Nov 1999 11:32:22 -0500 Message-Id: <01BF2525.EDDF1120.rothenberg@automationonline.com> From: Michael Rothenberg Reply-To: "rothenberg@automationonline.com" To: "'Dan Mahoney'" Cc: "'8 BSD Qs'" Subject: RE: Shutdown w/ unproper / dismount? Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1999 11:32:21 -0500 Organization: Intelligent Automation X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet E-mail/MAPI - 8.0.0.4211 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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