filesystems not properly unmounted

Matthias Buelow mkb at incubus.de
Thu Jun 2 13:18:53 GMT 2005


Maxi Combina wrote:
> 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?

This is a known issue; explicitly unmount the ext2/ext3 filesystem
before shutdown.

mkb.


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