my question (shortened for brevity) was: > Does poweroff/halt indeed unmount all drives ? > (the other drives on the system were cleanly unmounted according to the > bootlog). > > If so, why was I still seeing diskactivity when the machine powered down ? > > What is the difference between halt, poweroff and shutdown ? The answers: Yes, poweroff and halt sync and unmount the drives I was seeing diskactivity because the kernel waits for all diskacivity to stop before powering off. Most likely what I saw was the last disk being active and when that activity stopped the machine powered off. The difference between halt, poweroff and shutdown: poweroff is the same as halt, but it also powers off the machine Shutdown also runs the shutdown scripts (in rc0) to gracefully terminate all running processes (databases and other ncie things). Kind regards, -- Gerhard den Hollander Phone +31-10.280.1515 Global Technical Support Fax +31-10.280.1511 Jason Geosystems BV (When calling please note: we are in GMT+1) gdenhollander@jasongeo.com POBox 1573 visit us at http://www.jasongeo.com 3000 BN Rotterdam JASON.......#1 in Reservoir Characterization The Netherlands This e-mail and any attachment is/are intended solely for the named addressee(s) and may contain information that is confidential and privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, we request that you do not disseminate, forward, distribute or copy this e-mail message. If you have received this e-mail message in error, please notify us immediately by telephone and destroy the original message. _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Thu Oct 4 07:07:24 2001
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