Very Computer

Hi,
I've run into a problem. I'm running FreeBSD 2.2.2 and mounts a Linux
ext2fs partition to run Applixware. I get the following message when I run
'shutdown':

Syncing disks... <a lot of numbers> giving up

When FreeBSD reboots, it complains about the / and /usr partitions not
beeing unmounted properly and runs 'fsck'.

The ext2fs partition is mounted from /etc/fstab using the line:

/dev/wd0s3      /usr/linux      ext2fs  ro      0       0

The problem goes away if I unmount the ext2fs partion before shuting down.

Is this a known problem, and is there a cure for it?

With regards,

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"Chemists never die --- they just use up their reactants!"

Quote:> Hi,
> I've run into a problem. I'm running FreeBSD 2.2.2 and mounts a Linux
> ext2fs partition to run Applixware. I get the following message when I run
> 'shutdown':

> Syncing disks... <a lot of numbers> giving up

> When FreeBSD reboots, it complains about the / and /usr partitions not
> beeing unmounted properly and runs 'fsck'.

> The ext2fs partition is mounted from /etc/fstab using the line:

> /dev/wd0s3 /usr/linux      ext2fs  ro      0       0

> The problem goes away if I unmount the ext2fs partion before shuting down.

> Is this a known problem, and is there a cure for it?

Quote:> I experience the same problem on 2.2-stable.
> I just ignore it and it did not yet ruined my
> ext2fs filesystem. ( I use it since 2.2.0 is out )

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    And also, I read somewhere, perhaps in this newsgroup (although I
can't find the article at the moment), or perhaps in some mailing list
archive from some time back, that one really shouldn't use the
mount_ext2fs code with Linux files, as the code was somewhat buggy.  Is
this still true of the 3.0-CURRENT release, and if so, is there much
danger in mounting the Linux partitions read-only?

Thanks,
Barry Bouwsma
visiting Mendel University, Brno, CZ