on Wed, May 16, 2001 at 10:08:52AM -0500, Andrew Perrin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Folks- > > For some reason, my root mount (/dev/hdb3) *never* unmounts cleanly on > halt or shutdown; I always get an fsck on startup. Any idea why?
How are you shutting down.
$ shutdown now
...doesn't shut down the system (poweroff or reboot), it drops to admin
(single user) mode. To shut down fully, supply the '-r' (reboot) or
'-h' (halt) options:
$ shutdown -r now
$ shutdown -h now
...otherwise, post more data.
You should also be able to fake a shutdown by dropping to single-user
mode, unmounting all partitions other than /, turning off swap
(swapoff), then mounting root readonly:
$ mount -o remount,ro /
...at which point you can power down the system.
It should boot cleanly.
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