Re: ext2 fs not properly updated upon dismount.

Romano Giannetti (romano@iet.unipi.it)
Thu, 18 Jun 1998 10:37:44 +0200

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.
Romano

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