Re: not cleanly unmounted?

["Mark Lanett" <mlanett@parrotchat.net>]

I sometimes have a problem with non-hda drives because they spin down. The
unmount command tries to spin them up, doesn't wait long enough, and you
have an unclean unmount.

~mark

> hi. after recompiling 2.4.10, my boot process is fine until the end
> where i get an error: "/dev/hdd2 was not cleanly unmounted,
> check forced" and fsck goes and does its business for a couple
> of minutes. i find this annoying, as i DO cleanly unmount before i
> off the machine. any clues for a newbie? thanks.