> Hi !
>
> Same with my box:
>
> Some times all umounts are done, sometimes
> "foo bar is busy" is reported at shutdown
> and then this partitions are fsck'ed at
> reboot.
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> On 13-Aug-97 Tsurng-Chen Chern wrote:
> >
> > Don't know whether you guys notice or not? After I
> > switch to 2.1.49, every time I reboot the machine, there
> > are some partitions not coming up cleanly, need to be fsck'ed.
> > Is there a problem with the kernel?
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I notice this to. However, if I manually do everything....
# kill -TERM -1
# sync
# kill -KILL -1
# sync
# umount -a # Sometimes fails with 'busy`
# mount -n -o remount /
# umount -a # always works
... Now hit the boot switch...
Maybe there is a timing problem so the last writes to the file-systems
haven't occurred by the time `shutdown` halts the system???? If I do
this slowly, waiting for the HD LEDs to go out, it seems to work every
time.
Cheers,
DJ
Richard B. Johnson
Analogic Corporation
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