Dumb question, which "man 8 shutdown" and cousins (halt, reboot) don't seem to answer: is incanting "shutdown" expected to unmount all mounted filesystems, even those mounted "interactively" (i.e. not listed in /etc/fstab)?
Yes, shutdown is supposed to unmount all of the filesystems cleanly. However....
I ask because I managed to embarass myself during a trial install of FreeBSDS-5.3RC1 (my first outing with FreeBSD, though I've too many years with HP-UX, Debian, RedHat, and recently OpenBSD). I'd mounted an ext3 partition for a quick bit of editing (that's where my grub config files were), using the built-in ext2fs.
...I recall that there are some issues handling ext2fs filesystems cleanly during the shutdown process, which tend to cause them to not be unmounted properly. It's considered a bug.
-- -Chuck
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