On 22 Dec 1998, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: : In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jim Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : >I'm not using LILO and boot into Linux from a config.sys menu option : >under Win95. I use loadlin to boot Linux. I needed to do some : >maintenance the other day and found that booting single from a running : >system doesn't work very well. It keeps /usr mounted because it doesn't : >kill off the process using /usr, I guess. : : Perhaps you used the wrong way to go to single user mode. The only : correct way to switch to single user from multi user is: : : shutdown now : : [Note the omission of the -r/-h option!].
However, I think this still leaves all the partitions mounted (although you ought to be able to unmount any partition at that time). If using `shutdown now' doesn't help, perhaps lsof can shed some light on the problem. -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9)
