Re: "not cleanly unmounted" devices when rebooting

[Hector Akamine <akamine@example.com>]

From: Jonathan Byrne <jq@example.com>

> Hector Akamine (akamine@example.com) wrote:
> 
> > Almost every time I reboot my PC (using shutdown, reboot or
> > Ctrl+Alt+Del) I get a "/dev/sda5 was not cleanly unmounted, check
> > forced" message, and linux proceeds to check the HD. I think any of
> 
> During shutdown, what messages do you see regarding unmounting of
> drives?  Where is  /dev/sda5 mounted?
> 
> It's most likely that something isn't working correctly during
> shutdown and /dev/sda5 is not unmounted successfully, rather
> than it's not trying to unmount it.

I just rebooted twice and didn't experiment problems this time (I
didn't get any error messages either). I don't
remember if there were error messages before.  

my /etc/fstab has the following:

/dev/sda5               /                       ext2    defaults        1 1
/dev/cdrom              /mnt/cdrom              iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 0 0
/dev/sda6               swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
/dev/fd0                /mnt/floppy             ext2    noauto,owner    0 0
none                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
none                    /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
/dev/hda1		/export/ide1p1		ext2	defaults	1 2


As Itsumi-san suggests, I will execute sync before rebooting or
shutting down, and hope won't have problems in the future.

Thanks a lot