On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Ian Balchin wrote: > HI, dman, Pietro, Jo-el, & Sam, > > I definitely did not do a sync. Maybe I did a umount, but probably not. A umount does sync the floppy or any disc... > Why, when one shuts down via, say, poweroff, can unix not do that for > you in the course of closing things down? It seems on of those things > that is going to get forgotten in a rush. .. it does in /etc/rc0.d/S40umountfs > Regards > Ian