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From: Andy Farkas <andyf@speednet.com.au>
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Subject: Re: Syncer failure after fsck on all partitions
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Kevin Oberman wrote:

> Finally I do a reboot. No partition has ever been mounted except root
> which is read-only. Syncer reports 1 or more buffers remain and
> reports this until it gives up.

On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 08:13:27 +1000 (EST) Andy Farkas <andyf@speednet.com.au> wrote:
> Subject: buffers remaining...
>
> If you boot into single user mode (boot -s), do an fsck (a full fsck, no
> options), then halt(8), you will get:
>
> syncing disks, buffers remaining... 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
> giving up on 1 buffers

Nobody responded. It must not matter.

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        Andy Farkas
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