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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.caldera.com!enews.sgi.com!nntprelay.mathworks.com!howland.erols.net!cs.utexas.edu!atlantis.utmb.edu!news From: "Ernest C. Hymel" <ehymel@utmb.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Powering Down Date: 10 Jul 1997 14:29:32 GMT Organization: University of Texas Medical Branch Lines: 24 Message-ID: <01bc8d3d$31f91460$27366d81@masscomp> References: <33c49208.1255785@news.dixonssurgical.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: masscomp.utmb.edu X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1161 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:44214 Are you waiting for the system to tell you it's done? Make sure you see a message similar to: syncing disks.. 4 4 done. before you actually power off. Ernie Jay Dixon <jay@dixonssurgical.co.uk> wrote in article <33c49208.1255785@news.dixonssurgical.co.uk>... > Hi All > > I am currently running FreeBSD 2.2.1 and am shutting down using the > "shutdown now" command as directed in the handbook. > > When I power back on again I am told that "/" was not unmounted > properley and all the flags on my disk are dirty. > > How should I be shutting down to power off? > > Cheers > Jay