On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 02:29:23PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > on Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 08:35:28PM +0100, Nico De Ranter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > Howdy, > > > > I just got a new computer and installed Debian on it (ofcourse :-). > > The installation uses 2 partitions, 1 of 5GB and 1 of 15GB (hey I have > > to do something with all that diskspace don't I :-). I did the same > > install as I always did starting from the Debian 2.2 cd's. However > > with the new PC every time I boot Linux will complain the filesystems > > weren't properly unmounted and will do a full check of the > > filesystems. I do ofcourse always make sure to turn off the machine > > by typing "halt". > > This is your problem. Try: > > $ shutdown -h now
I don't think so -- man halt: NOTES Under older sysvinit releases , reboot and halt should never be called directly. From release 2.74 on halt and reboot invoke shutdown(8) if the system is not in runlevel 0 or 6. This means that if halt or reboot cannot find out the current runlevel (for example, when /var/run/utmp hasn't been initialized correctly) shutdown will be called, which might not be what you want. Use the -f flag if you want to do a hard halt or reboot. At least it works as advertised here; same for "reboot". I think this has been the case for some time under linux. -- Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>