Re: Problem with umount/umount2
On Tuesday 04 November 2003 15:33, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote:
> Hi:
>
> I am using Debian unstable with the kernel that came with Knoppix 3.3
> which uses kernel 2.4.22-xfs. I have mounted /dev/hde6 as /usr,
> /dev/hde5 as /home and /dev/hde8 as /var. When I shutdown there is
> always a message from umount2 that /usr was busy etc, and when
> I reboot next time it always does the checking of /dev/hde6. The other
> drives appear to be unmounted cleanly. I run unstable on another
> machine with 2.4.8, but I do not have this same trouble; man umount
> does not refer to umount 2. On the Knoppix one, man umount does refer
> to umount2. I have read some complaints about this in the lists about
> umount2 (starrting from about 2001) but there does not appear to be
> any definitive answer. I wonder whether anyone here has a handle on
> what might be happening, and why only /usr should give this problem.
That is interesting. I occasionally mount my old /opt and /usr partitions
(from my now unused RH installation) just to look at how some things were set
up. A couple of times, I've had the same difficulty umounting the old /usr
(mounted to /mnt/hdb5, FWIW). Sometimes the problem disappears after a
couple of days. but I don't understand what causes it. Mine is also unstable
with a Knoppix kernel (2.4.21-xfs).
--
richard
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