5.1-R-p11 unable to "sync disks" when shutting down

[David Gilbert]

>>>>> "Esa" == Esa Karkkainen <ejk at iki.fi> writes:

Esa> For some reason my home PC is occasionally unable to sync to disk
Esa> when I run "shutdown -p now". The HW in question is a Shuttle
Esa> SN45G which has NVIDIA nForce2 Ultra 400 North bridge and MCP-T
Esa> South bridge. I've attached dmesg to this e-mail.

Are you using snapshots?  I find that large (where in my case, large
is partitions larger than 30G or so) partitions with more than one
snapshot cause the system to not sync the disks on shutdown.

Dave.

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