filesystems not properly unmounted [OT]

[Oliver Fromme]

[Quoting fixed.]

Ronald Klop <ronald-freebsd8 at klop.yi.org> wrote:
 > Oliver Fromme <olli at lurza.secnetix.de> wrote:
 > > Yuval Levy <yuval_levy at yahoo.com> wrote:
 > > > Which brings me back to the topic of this thread: is there anybody out
 > > > there with the skills to cleanly solve this shameful situation in which
 > > > rebooting FreeBSD results in unclean mounting of ext2 (and potentially
 > > > other) volumes?
 > > 
 > > A umount command in rc.shutdown should be a feasible
 > > work-around.
 > > 
 > > Fixing the driver is probably not a high-priority, because
 > > not many users are affected by the problem, I guess.
 > > (But then again:  It's open source, so you can try to fix
 > > it yourself.)
 > 
 > Did you guys already unmount your filesystem?

The point is that it should not be necessary to explicitly
unmount the filesystem.  Upon shutdown, all UFS filesystems
are unmounted automatically by the kernel (even if they're
not mentioned in /etc/fstab).  However, that doesn't apply
to ext2 filesystems.

Best regards
   Oliver

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