Date: Wed, 03 Nov 1999 02:22:01 GMT From: "danny h" <bsd_freebsd@hotmail.com> To: rothenberg@automationonline.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Shutdown w/ unproper / dismount? Message-ID: <19991103022202.39922.qmail@hotmail.com>
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What message did you see after you isssued the command "shutdown -h NOW" From memory it should give you an output "Sync disk... "The operating system has halted" "Press any key to reboot" You have to wait till the message appears before you shutdown. Tue, 2 Nov 1999 11:03:21 -0500 > >FBSD 3.2 >Compaq Presario 710 >Pentium 75 MHz >40 meg ram >700+ disk > >I wanted to turn my system off yesterday so I logged in as root and issued: > > #shutdown -h now > >Everything went smoothly and I waited for the shutdown and sync to >complete. I then turned the box off and waited a few seconds. I turned it >on again. I received the message (or close): > > / was not properly dismounted... > Auto-reboot in progress.. > >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? > >-Michael > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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