[PLUG] No soup for /dev/hda2!

[Alex Russell]

I'm pretty sure Matt knows _exactly_ what the consequences of hard-killing a
box are. Pretty much common sense, no?

Alex

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"Garrett Honeycutt" <gh@eas.purdue.edu> wrote in message
news:mailman.986575503.4912.plug@csociety.purdue.edu...
> On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Matthew Laurence Wirges wrote:
>
> > Arggh...
> > Okay, I am running Debian (Woody) with kernel 2.4.3 and I am having
issues
> > with my /
> > partition.  Everytime I restart it tells me that /dev/hda2 was not
> > unmounted cleanly.. It then checks the disk and everything is usually
> > fine.  (it does this everytime, btw)  Then just this last time (I had to
> > reboot because of some java issues) it again warns me that /dev/hda2 was
> > not cleanly unmounted, then it dumped me to maintainance mode where it
> > told me to manually fsck the drive (believe me by this point I really
> > wanted to FSCK the drive with a hammer :).. That worked, and I managed
to
> > get back on, but I am afraid this is going to continue.  Thoughts,
> > suggestions (other than telling me to use reiser et al...) ?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > -matt
>
> are you rebooting your system with the hardware switch or are you running
> the command 'init 6' or 'reboot'? if you are physically turning off the
> machine then how is it going to unmount the disks and how are you supposed
> to avoid data loss ...
>
> -g
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