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From: cgd@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Disklabel/newfs -
Date: 4 Mar 93 22:46:26
Organization: Kernel Hackers 'r' Us
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Message-ID: <CGD.93Mar4224626@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU>
References: <1993Mar4.062419.18727@oz.plymouth.edu> <1993Mar4.181535.4302@coe.montana.edu>
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In-reply-to: ted@oz.plymouth.edu's message of Fri, 5 Mar 93 06:15:16 GMT
In article <1993Mar5.061516.17253@oz.plymouth.edu> ted@oz.plymouth.edu (The Wizard of Oz) writes:
=>that I was in "multi-user mode" so when I did "shutdown -h now" it did
=>not update the disks, thus not saving my partition information. Duh.
umm, as long as you wait for the > prompt telling you to press any key,
the disks *will* get updated...
(or, at least should... 8-)
=> 6. If you are in multi-user mode do: shutdown
=> then: shutdown -h
=>
=> If you are in single user do: shutdown -h
=>
=> (Wait until you see the ">" prompt telling you to press
=> a key to reboot) BEFORE shutting off power or reset, if
=> that is what you wish to do, else press a key to reboot.
you shouldn't need to do the "shutdown" first...
chris
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