Keith Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | David B. Teague wrote: | > | > The problem is that SOMETIMES, not frequently, | > | > shutdown -h now | > | > will stop before unmounting drives | > | > The correct answer is to upgrade, but is there anything I could | > do in the interim? | > | > I have a draconian set of deadlines, and I don't want to do anything | > that could result in this machine going down for any length of time. | > | | Don't shutdown your machine. | | [ducking under desk] | | Ok, Ok, I have some real ideas to consider... | | Idea #1 - umount the drives yourself: | | sync;sync;sync | umount -a | shutdown -h now | | Idea #2 - have shutdown wait a period of time before actually shutting | down | | shutdown -h +5 # Check my syntax on the +5 | | Idea #3 - some combination of the above ideas | | sync;sync;sync | umount -a | shutdown -h +5
syncs aren't necessary if you're umounting the drive anyway. umount causes the buffer for that device to be flushed before it actually unmounts the device. Gary
