Re: ext2 fs not properly updated upon dismount.

Rik van Riel (H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl)
Thu, 18 Jun 1998 20:19:56 +0200 (CEST)

On Thu, 18 Jun 1998, Romano Giannetti wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 17, 1998 at 09:25:16PM -0400, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> > >
> > > But, does this corruption occur too when multiple sync(1)
> > > calls are being done from the shutdown script?
> > >
> > Don't know.
>
> Probably a stupid comment, but... I remember heaaring about a similar
> problem with a disk used with hdparm -W1 and not switched to
> hdparm -W0 before umount.

This could well be the case... I don't use hdparm -W0 on
shutdown, but then again I never switch of my PC :-)

I probably should adapt my shutdown scripts though...

Rik.
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