Greetings folks,

Posting after not valuable yields from considerable efforts on STFW. But still if you can't hold the flames, go ahead, torch me. :^)

RH 7.0 during shutdown gave me the following inserts to the logfile. <snip> eb 5 14:59:14 maple xinetd: xinetd shutdown succeeded Feb 5 14:59:14 maple atd: atd shutdown succeeded Feb 5 14:59:15 maple crond: crond shutdown succeeded Feb 5 14:59:15 maple lpd: lpd shutdown succeeded Feb 5 14:59:15 maple identd: identd shutdown succeeded Feb 5 14:59:16 maple dd: 1+0 records in <------------------ Feb 5 14:59:16 maple dd: 1+0 records out <------------------ Feb 5 14:59:16 maple random: Saving random seed: succeeded Feb 5 14:59:16 maple autofs: automount -USR2 succeeded Feb 5 14:59:16 maple automount[446]: shutting down, path = /misc Feb 5 14:59:18 maple nfslock: lockd shutdown succeeded Feb 5 20:59:18 maple rpc.statd[395]: Caught signal 15, un-registering and exiting. Feb 5 14:59:18 maple nfslock: rpc.statd shutdown succeeded <snip>

I had no dd in/out in progress during shutdown.

Then what initiates this dd during shutdown?

This was a normal shutdown, as part of usual routine.

Is it sth like saving the *boot sector*/syncing the hard drive's important locations info during shutdown?

Thanks for your time,

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