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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!convex!convex!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!nic.umass.edu!noc.near.net!oz.plymouth.edu!ted From: ted@oz.plymouth.edu (The Wizard of Oz) Subject: Re: Disklabel/newfs - Message-ID: <1993Mar5.151523.5136@oz.plymouth.edu> Organization: Plymouth State College - Plymouth, NH. References: <1993Mar4.181535.4302@coe.montana.edu> <1993Mar5.061516.17253@oz.plymouth.edu> <CGD.93Mar4224626@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Fri, 5 Mar 93 15:15:23 GMT Lines: 28 In article <CGD.93Mar4224626@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU> cgd@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou) writes: >In article <1993Mar5.061516.17253@oz.plymouth.edu> ted@oz.plymouth.edu (The Wizard of Oz) writes: >=>that I was in "multi-user mode" so when I did "shutdown -h now" it did >=>not update the disks, thus not saving my partition information. Duh. > >umm, as long as you wait for the > prompt telling you to press any key, >the disks *will* get updated... They didn't, they have only stated "updating disks" when I have shut down from single user mode. Perhaps this is a bug? I have an older 386 (2yrs) maybe that is the problem. > >(or, at least should... 8-) > [stuff deleted] > >you shouldn't need to do the "shutdown" first... > Sorry, I had to go with what worked, as opposed to what didn't. --> Ted | Ted Wisniewski INET: ted@oz.plymouth.edu | | Academic Computing or | | Plymouth State College tedw@psc.plymouth.edu | | Plymouth NH, 03264 |