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Re: filesystems not unmounted on reboot (was: Re: Two hard-to-find problems)



Package: sysvinit
Version: 2.74-3
Severity: wishlist

In article <[🔎] 19980324002956.63684@vaxerdec.dyn.ml.org>,
Scott McDermott <vaxerdec@frontiernet.net> wrote:
>Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> on Mon, Mar 23, 1998 at 11:07:04PM +0100:
>> >Maybe we should implement something similar to what Redhat does.
>> >Redhat remounts all file systems that couldn't be unmounted for some
>> >reason as read-only.
>> 
>> How exactly do they do this? I assume they have a modified mount
>> command for that.
>
>I'm not sure how redhat does it, but my mount (2.7l, compiled from
>source) has an option to umount:
>
>       -r     In case unmounting fails, try to remount read-only.
>
>which as far as I can tell is standard.

Ofcourse. It's probably a good idea to add this in the umountfs script.
As you can see I've turned this reply into a bugreport.

Mike.
-- 
 Miquel van Smoorenburg | Our vision is to speed up time,
    miquels@cistron.nl  |   eventually eliminating it.


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