Re: fsck and shutdown

On Sun, 9 Jun 2002, Nicolas Salamin wrote:

> I've got SuSE linux 7.3 installed on a Dell Inspiron 2500. I recently got
> a problem when shutting down (or restarting) the computer. At boot up, the
> message "/dev/hda4 (root partition) not cleanly unmouted" appears and
> fsck is run to check the filesystems. But that's when "shutdown -h (or
> -r) now" is used to shutdown the computer, and even when the "/dev/hda4 
> unmounted" appears in the message log during the shutdown.
> I tried to check /etc/fstab or /etc/inittab but nothing seems wrong. Any
> ideas??

One cause of this is that some other filesystem doesn't get unmounted
cleanly. I've seen this when a compact flash hangs. It's not a laptop
problem only, if that's what's causing it. Making root ext3 will lessen
the pain.

		-- rob bogus