> On 16 Jun 1998, Anders Melchiorsen wrote:
>
> > "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com> writes:
> >
> > > Here is an update. It might point to the problem. If I don't set up
> > > a swap drive, the problem doesn't occur. My swap partition is /dev/sdc2,
> > > not shared with anything, while my root file-system is /dev/sdc1.
> >
> > > Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System
> > > /dev/sdc1 * 1 1 255 2048256 83 Linux native
> > > /dev/sdc2 256 256 288 265072+ 83 Linux native
> > > /dev/sdc3 289 289 553 2128612+ 83 Linux native
> >
> > Try setting the Id of /dev/dsc2 to 82, Linux swap instead of 83, Linux
> > native. Perhaps mkswap'ing it afterwards is a good idea, too.
> >
> I can certainly do this, but it's not even used by the kernel nor
> even mkswap.
Is it possible that the problem is at shutdown, that the unmount(8) is
mistaking /dev/sdc2 for a filesystem that needs to be unmounted
(since it does appear in fstab), and then dying a silent death before
it can unmount other partitions?
It might be useful to do a series of explit unmounts at shutdown time,
or to make sure you don't unmount proc and do a "cat /proc/mounts"
after the unmount utility has run to be sure it's really done its
job...
Adam
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