filesystems not properly unmounted

[Yuval Levy]

Matthias Buelow wrote:

>Maxi Combina wrote:
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>>Hello, I am running freebsd 5.4, and every time I reboot, I get a
>>mesasge when the kernel is mounting the filesystems. It says that the
>>fs were not properly unmounted, and must chek them. Them main concern
>>is with my root partition. I also have en ext3 partition (which I
>>mount as ext2), and the kernel also complains about this ext3
>>partition.
>>The root partition is automatically checked, but the ext2 partition
>>not! I have to manually run fsck.ext2 and then reboot again...
>>I am _sure_ that I have rebooted in the right way. Well, at least with
>>`reboot' and `halt'. May be this is not the right way? Am I missing
>>something?
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>This is a known issue; explicitly unmount the ext2/ext3 filesystem
>before shutdown.
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>mkb.
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Is it possible to fix this issue? from the description it seems to me 
that the issue got worse since freebsd 5.3 (assuming Maxi's root 
partition is ufs2).

On a freebsd 5.3 box I am confronted with the ext2/ext3 issue as well, 
but it does not affect my root partition (ufs2).

While this issue is affecting me only temporarely (I am waiting for a 
new RAID subsystem to migrate the data from ext3 to ufs2 and kiss Linux 
goodbye), I think it is an unacceptable issue in a production grade 
operating system.

Thanks in advance to the knowledgeable person that will look into this 
and fix it.

Yuv