On Tue, 18 Jun 2002 19:11:56 -0400 iggy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 18 June 2002 07:51 pm, you wrote: > i thought the same thing, maybe i was being impatient. so when i was > shutting down earlier today i waited until i got the same error message then > left (took my mower to the repair shop). when i arrieved i still had the > error message and the machine was locked.
Yeah, that sounds like a lock to me. I only suggested the wait because I've killed the computer shutting down and had to sit through 35 minutes of e2fsck, with my fingers crossed. [It found no errors... but still.] > when running the sync command, do i run just 'sync' or does it need any > paramaters? (can you tell i'm a little new?) Just sync on its own: [web@eventhorizon web]$ sync [web@eventhorizon web]$ I run it a couple of times just to make sure its put all of the buffers out to disk. Hope that helps, though I think 'PlugHead' has some better solutions. :-) G -- Gavin Laking 12:36am up 2:50, 3 users, load average: 1.00, 1.00, 1.00 http://www.gavinlaking.co.uk/ --
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