Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!mailrus!husc6!paperboy!pnh From: pnh@morocco.osf.org (unknown) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Shutting down system (MINIX-ST v1.1 (what else)) Message-ID: Date: 13 Oct 89 16:08:10 GMT Sender: news@OSF.ORG Distribution: comp Organization: Open Software Foundation Lines: 8 I have a kernel w/ Howard Johnson's modifications for running w/out RAM disk directly from drive (I have root directly on /dev/hd4). Everything works fine except that I'm not sure what procedure to use to shutdown the system: saying sync a couple of times is clearly not adequate since fsck finds problems when I reboot. What's the proper procedure? or is there one yet?