Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 00:05:54 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Stefek Zaba <s-freebsd-qns-oct04@zaba.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: shutdown(8): supposed to dismount all FSes? Message-ID: <4181C1A2.2040707@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20041028185347.GA1917@zaba-s-2.hpl.hp.com> References: <20041028185347.GA1917@zaba-s-2.hpl.hp.com>
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Stefek Zaba wrote: > Dumb question, which "man 8 shutdown" and cousins (halt, reboot) don't > seem to answer: is incanting "shutdown" expected to unmount all mounted > filesystems, even those mounted "interactively" (i.e. not listed in > /etc/fstab)? Yes, shutdown is supposed to unmount all of the filesystems cleanly. However.... > I ask because I managed to embarass myself during a trial install of > FreeBSDS-5.3RC1 (my first outing with FreeBSD, though I've too many > years with HP-UX, Debian, RedHat, and recently OpenBSD). I'd mounted > an ext3 partition for a quick bit of editing (that's where my grub > config files were), using the built-in ext2fs. ...I recall that there are some issues handling ext2fs filesystems cleanly during the shutdown process, which tend to cause them to not be unmounted properly. It's considered a bug. -- -Chuck
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