Re: Mounting floppy. Newbie #61

[Martin Fluch]

On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Ian Balchin wrote:

> HI, dman, Pietro, Jo-el, & Sam,
> 
> I definitely did not do a sync.  Maybe I did a umount, but probably not.

A umount does sync the floppy or any disc...

> Why, when one shuts down via, say, poweroff, can unix not do that for
> you in the course of closing things down?  It seems on of those things
> that is going to get forgotten in a rush.

.. it does in /etc/rc0.d/S40umountfs 

> Regards
> Ian