[OpenIndiana-discuss] Turning off the multibay hd enclousure for my backup

[Joshua M. Clulow]

On Wed, 20 Aug 2025 at 14:26, dan via openindiana-discuss
<openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org> wrote:
> Don't be afraid of me, but I end up to have UFS partitions on my multibay enc
> cause I only found on the man about newfs to format them and I convinced myself that UFS was the only
> way to go. I'm still with planty of stuff to study about this OS and now I know that I can
> create ZFS partitions myself too, right.. I will discover how!
>
> Seems to me, by your answers, that I need to go with a sync for now, eheh.. ;)

Ah, if you're using UFS, can you give a bit more detail about the
exact sequence of operations?  If you've used "umount" to unmount all
the UFS file systems, I would expect that they would be synced out
prior to unmount.

What is the "sync error" you're seeing?  Can you paste it?


Cheers.

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Joshua M. Clulow
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