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Re: lvm + dm-crypt = shutdown problem (mount: / is busy)



On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 11:17:56AM +0200, Giorgos D. Pallas wrote:
> And why doesn't it first unmount root fs and then disable the LV? I guess 
> the answer to this is that root fs is not unmounted but rather remounted 
> read-only, so it would fail again... Is that it? (I am relatively new to 
> linux and I want to make sure I understand this correctly...)

Yes, one cannot unmount the current /, as it's always busy. Re-mounting it
read-only is the usual way, but you can't completely shut down LVM with it.


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