The problem that I had, several times, was a shutdown hangup on something like "deconfiguring inetd". At this point, the keyboard was disabled. I could escape to another TTY# but could type nothing. The best behaved shutdown at this point as a control./alt/del. It apparently did not flush the disks.
A manual fschk is scarey but it did the job. Had things been synched on logout, this would have been unnecessary. If I "journal" (or mount the linux partition with a synch option ??), how much of a performance loss is this? Is ext3 a better system? XFS? I created the partition using PartitionMagic and it "recommended" the ext2. Would a real quick unmount/mount in the bash_logout be safe and do the job? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
