LINUX was not cleanly unmounted...

[Goran]

Hi ! I am using Slackware 9.1 on a Linux ext2 partition (the partition is called LINUX). When the system boots it gives displays a message
LINUX: was not cleanly unmounted, check forced
And then it checks some "inodes" and changes their size. After that it reboots the system, and then it normaly boots. How should I shut down my computer ? I logout of X Windows and then issue a command like shutdown now -h. Should the file system be unmounted first ? Thank You.

[mesut]

use

halt

[Dolda2000]

"shutdown -h now" should have worked. Does it hang or something during the shutdown sequence?

In any case, you should have used ext3 instead of ext2. It's journalling, so that you usually don't have to worry about filesystem checks (that doesn't mean that you should shut down the system uncleanly, though).

[mesut]

is
shutdown -h now
and
halt
same?

[Dolda2000]

Yep. Both switch to runlevel 0.

[Goran]

Is is possible that "reboot -f" could have caused this ? Anyway, no more system checks - it boots just fine. I need to read more about boot time module loading and where it is kept. And runlevels too. Thanks for the response, You guys are very nice...

[Dolda2000]

Yes, `reboot -f' would certainly cause that.