Re: shutdown not unnmounting

[Keith Beattie <ksb@icds.org>]

David B. Teague wrote:
> 
> The problem is that SOMETIMES, not frequently, 
> 
> 	shutdown -h now
> 
> will stop before unmounting drives
> 
> The correct answer is to upgrade, but is there anything I could
> do in the interim? 
> 
> I have a draconian set of deadlines, and I don't want to do anything
> that could result in this machine going down for any length of time. 
> 

Don't shutdown your machine.

[ducking under desk]


Ok, Ok, I have some real ideas to consider...

Idea #1 - umount the drives yourself:

	sync;sync;sync
	umount -a
	shutdown -h now

Idea #2 - have shutdown wait a period of time before actually shutting
down

	shutdown -h +5  # Check my syntax on the +5

Idea #3 - some combination of the above ideas

	sync;sync;sync
	umount -a
	shutdown -h +5

etc.

HTH,
Keith