ext2 drives under 5.3 not umounting on reboots

[Andriy Tkachuk]

I've had the same problem on 5.3.
now on my FreeBSD 5.4-RC2 #0: Fri Apr 15 11:28:48 EEST 2005 i386
it seems that problem gone.

On Sunday 17 April 2005 00:07, c0ldbyte wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Apr 2005, M. Parsons wrote:
> 
> > I have a ext2 linux partition mounted under /linux via the fstab line:
> >
> > /dev/ad2s1             /linux          ext2fs  rw              1       2
> >
> > It will automount on bootup, but if I do a reboot or shutdown -h now, it
> > doesnt get umounted properly.  In fact, if this /linux is mounted, then /,
> > /usr, /var, and /tmp (all seperate ufs slices on another hard drive) also get
> > tainted during a reboot.  And on the next startup I get the good ole:
> > WARNING: /usr was not properly dismounted, leaving me to fsck the drives in
> > single mode (which sucks, as the fbsd machine is a headless NAT machine).
> > Running fsck in single mode does fix everything.
> >
> > So whats going on here?  reboot aint properly umounting partitions, and fsck
> > doesnt seem to be properly running during bootup if it detects tainted
> > filesystems.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Freebsd 5.3 SMP kernel.
> 
> Try this line:
> /dev/ad2s1             /linux          ext2fs  rw              0       0
> 
> But remember the ext2 code has been buggy for a while and is not allways
> a good choice to try and do writes on it. Might be a better choice to
> change rw to ro and to also check that drive/partition for errors with
> its original fsck to fix any errors if there is any then it will most
> likely mount properly and umount properly.
> 
> Best of luck,
>  	--c0ldbyte
>