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From: "Ernest C. Hymel" <ehymel@utmb.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Powering Down
Date: 10 Jul 1997 14:29:32 GMT
Organization: University of Texas Medical Branch
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Are you waiting for the system to tell you it's done? Make sure you see a
message similar to:

syncing disks.. 4 4 done.

before you actually power off.

Ernie

Jay Dixon <jay@dixonssurgical.co.uk> wrote in article
<33c49208.1255785@news.dixonssurgical.co.uk>...
> Hi All
> 
> I am currently running FreeBSD 2.2.1 and am shutting down using the
> "shutdown now" command as directed in the handbook.
> 
> When I power back on again I am told that "/" was not unmounted
> properley and all the flags on my disk are dirty.
> 
> How should I be shutting down to power off?
> 
> Cheers
> Jay