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



According to Adam P. Harris:
> [miquels@cistron.nl (Miquel van Smoorenburg)]
> > 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.
> 
> It's a mount option to /etc/fstab.  According to 'man mount', what we
> need is the option 'errors=remount-ro' applied to each line mounting
> and ext2 partition.

No, that's for something else. The correct way to fix it is to add the `-r'
flag to the umount command. I've already filed a bugreport against sysvinit
for that.

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


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