Re: ext2 fs not properly updated upon dismount.

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
16 Jun 1998 21:56:56 GMT

Followup to: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980617061821.6532A-100000@stoli.spirits.org.au>
By author: Nathan Hand <nathanh@chirp.com.au>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
>
> On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
>
> > 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
>
> The id for your swap partition is incorrect: it should be 82.
>
> I imagine this catastrophically confuses your shutdown scripts.
>

Why would it? The kernel doesn't care.

-hpa

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