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KCE

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unmounting before shutdown

If I don't unmount a hard drive partition,etc. before shutting down the computer will it mess things up?

skottish

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Re: unmounting before shutdown

Linux will automatically unmount harddrives as it shuts down.

KCE

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Re: unmounting before shutdown

ah ok. Will anything happen if it shuts down unexpectedly?

Last edited by KCE (2007-07-02 03:19:11)

skottish

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Re: unmounting before shutdown

Hopefully not, but you always run the risk of corruption. Any time a disk is writing and it gets shut down unexpectedly you're going to have some data loss. With that being said, I've never known my base Linux system being hurt by unclean shutdowns.

wonder

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Re: unmounting before shutdown

if i have mounted a samba share from network this is not unmounted on restart and i need to reset my computer because it remains on busy for long time.

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tomk

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Re: unmounting before shutdown

Mount/unmount network shares using /etc/rc.d/netfs and appropriate fstab entries - that way, they will always be unmounted at shutdown.

wonder

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Re: unmounting before shutdown

thx for the tip.

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