| On Friday 06 March 2009 21:08:24 Daniel Baumann wrote: > Package: initscripts > Severity: wishlist > Tags: patch > Owner: debian-live@lists.debian.org > > Hi, > > /etc/init.d/umountfs unmounts both temporary and local filesystems. > however, in case of a live system, trying to unmount /cow, /live* or > /filesystem* will not work and therefore results in an (end-user > confusing) warning, that the respective fs could not have been unmounted > because it's busy. > > In the latest version of live-initramfs we do workaround this at runtime > by patching the script. However, it would be nice if this could be > improved and integrated into the umountfs script itself. > > Note that the namespace (/live*, /filesystem* etc.) is stable, it is > already part of some excluding/including mechanisms in gnome-vfs and > live-installer. so you don't have to fear that even if you hardcode it, > that you don't need to change it soon again. However, if you would > prefere something with an exclude mechanism by sourcing from another > file that would be only there on live-systems, that's fine too. Please > let me know what you'd prefere. > > Anyway, here is what we do currently: > > sed -i -e 's#pioodl $TMPFS_MTPTS)#pioodl $TMPFS_MTPTS | sed -e "s@\\ > @\\n@" | grep -v ^/live)#' \ > -e 's#pioodl $REG_MTPTS)#pioodl $REG_MTPTS | sed -e "s@\\ @\\n@" > | grep -v ^/live | grep -v ^/filesystem) /#' \ > /etc/init.d/umountfs --- --- debian/initscripts/etc/init.d/umountfs (revision 1331) +++ debian/initscripts/etc/init.d/umountfs (working copy) @@ -79,6 +79,10 @@ continue fi ;; + /filesystem*|/live*) + # used by live-initramfs + continue + ;; esac case "$FSTYPE" in proc|procfs|linprocfs|devfs|sysfs|usbfs|usbdevfs|devpts) --- > in the second replace, we also add '/' so that $REG_MTPTS is never > empty. it would be nice if you can make the whole unmounting of local > filesystems conditional, so that the script doesn't try to do anything > when there's nothing to unmount. |