Re: tlug: Cleanly unmounting devices

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Thu, 9 Jul 1998, Jonathan Byrne - 3Web wrote:

> On Wed, 8 Jul 1998, Gavin Walker wrote:
> 
> >Every time I start up Linux I'm getting a series of messages that say
> >"device XXXX was not cleanly unmounted - check forced", where XXXX is
> 
> I've experienced this, too.  I don't have a fix, but my workaround is to
> either use reboot -n, then wait until it gets to the POST and
> drop power (although I do not, as a rule, turn off my computers)or to
> use a keyboard reboot (which is trapped and starts the reboot -n boot
> sequence) and then drop power during the POST.
> 
> With either of these workaround, the disks are unmounted cleanly and
> bootup is normal.

you have this problem with TL i386 on a normal machine?  If you shutdown
the machine with 'shutdown -r now', 'shutdown -h now', or simply
ctrl-alt-del, the drives will unmount cleanly, as long as you don't
powercycle it before it says, "Unmounting filesystems..."

> 
> Jonathan Byrne
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