Re: umount -n (was Re: Halt script)

[Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>]

You (Bruce Perens) wrote:
> Date: Sat, 13 Jan 96 09:39 PST
> From: bruce@pixar.com (Bruce Perens)
> Subject: Re:  umount -n (was Re: Halt script)
> 
> I think that "umount" was modified to make the "-n" flag unnecessary.
> In other words, it detects the mtab-unwritable condition, and proceeds.
> However, removing the flag was the wrong thing to do. It should have been
> left in, and marked "obsolete" in the man page, so that existing scripts
> would not be broken.

Yup.
I've changed it like this:
umount -a -tnonfs
umount -a -tnfs

to be sure nfs is unmounted last.

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