Re: tlug: Cleanly unmounting devices

[Rafael Coninck Teigao <rct@example.com>]

Hi, it seens that Red Hat doesn't umount the disks, so I'd recommend that
you use 'shutdown -r now', whatch out for the '-r' option, that says to
the system reboot after shutting down.

[]'s
    RCT

Gavin Walker wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> 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
> all of my disk devices. I'm shutting now the machine using 'shutdown
> now' and waiting until all activity seems to have finished, so what am
> I doing wrong? Why doesn't Linux have a 'You can now turn the power
> off' type message? I'm using Redhat 5.0.
>
> TIA,
>
> Gav
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