On Mon, 13 Aug 2001, [ISO-8859-1] Gr�goire Colbert wrote:
> Vincent Meyer wrote:
> > Has the problem with shutting down eth0 got a fix? This makes me very
> > nervous, as I can't shutdown! My system gets as far as shutting down eth0,
> > and then hangs - so the file system never gets unmounted, the buffers never
> > get properly flushed, and the file system gets corrupted. Last night's
> > shutdown was rather dicey - fortunately most of the important stuff I use
> > didn't get corrupted, but I did loose some things.
> >
>
> I was wondering : is there a way to be sure that there will be no
> problem after a hard reboot? Some commands to issue or something?
>
Alt-SysRq-S and Alt-SysRq-U will sync your disks, and remount every
partition read-only, respectively. Perhaps this is what you're looking
for...
