Re: 5.1-R-p11 unable to "sync disks" when shutting down

From: Rahul Siddharthan (rsidd_at_online.fr)
Date: 12/31/03

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    Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 23:46:40 -0500
    To: Esa Karkkainen <ejk@iki.fi>
    
    

    Esa Karkkainen wrote:
    > For some reason my home PC is occasionally unable to sync to disk when I
    > run "shutdown -p now".
    ...
    > The only hard disk has four slices. ad0s1 has w2k,

    Is the w2k slice mounted? I find (and others have reported) that the
    disks don't sync with a linux ext2 slice mounted (even if it's mounted
    read-only) unless I unmount it before shutting down. Perhaps it's a
    related issue.

    Rahul
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