Re: cannot umount / when shutting down
On Tuesday 28 September 2004 16:06,
debian-user-digest-request@lists.debian.org wrote:
> Sometimes I see the message that has not been possible to umount the
> root filesystem during halt sequence.
> Then I suffer the endless fsck of the filesystem (it is ext3) on the
> next start.
>
> Does anybody know what may happen?
Possibly caused by timing problems--One cannot dismount if the file system is
still "busy". I fouind the appropriate script in the shutdown sequence and
changed the umount to a umount -l. This "lazy" dismount avoids the timing
problem by allowing the file system to be still "silently" mounted until
free. I follow this with a sleep of a few seconds to wait for this to happen.
Script executes with no errors and the file system is clean on reboot.
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