Hi Nic -
The other thought is that it may have something to do with
/home being on the / filesystem in this case, since / is the last
filesystem to be unmounted, and goes through the remount,ro trick
on shutdown.
Any chance you have a spare partition to move /home to, or maybe make
a small user homedir in /boot, to see if it exhibits the same problem?
-Eric
On 22 Apr 2002, Nic Doye wrote:
> FWIW, my laptop loses all my gnome settings when I do a
> Desktop->Logout->Shutdown via the menu panel every time.
>
> This behaviour only started when I did a reinstall (to put an MS OS on
> it too) and then lazilly set it up to have 2 XFS partitions (/boot + a
> massive /) whereas previously it had my usual 8ish XFS partitions.
>
> So my theory is that:
> 1) it's something to do with "it being a laptop" (slow disk/odd
> controller)
> 2) gnome keeps files open for writing which are unnecessary
> 3) having a (stupidly) big partition (takes longer to sync?)
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