Thank you! Thank you! thank you! The last time it ate my filesystem was down
for a week - hopefully this will keep it from happening again.
Also, funny thing - typing the "sync" command from the console still resulted
in the not cleanly unmounted message, and some minor errors with fdck the
next time the system was booted.
When I first learned UNIX stuff - like 1985, there was a bug in sync, that
required that it be executed at least twice in order to be sure the buffers
synced. Can I assume sometime in the last 15 years this got fixed? was
AT&T unix / Berkley 4.3 hybrid on a Stride 440
V.
On Monday 13 August 2001 02:19 pm, you wrote:
> 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...
