Paul Rodríguez wrote:
>
> Sorry to repost. But I thought maybe I should clarify my question. How can
> I unmount _all_ filesystems? Also, how can I make sure they are all unmount
> when I start my system?
>
> : ) Thanks.
>
> -Paul R
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Paul Rodríguez
> Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 8:55 PM
> To: Newbie@Linux-Mandrake. Com
> Subject: [newbie] FW: error mounting drives (already mounted)
>
> Hi, everybody. Not sure what I did (don't think I did anything), but my
> system is refusing to start properly. When it gets to the stage where it
> mounts the file systems (in read-only mode i think), it says /dev/hda8
> already mounted cannot continue, same for /hda9. It drops me back to shell,
> as root I try to umount hda8 (tried with the -v, -f, -a, and -n tags) but it
> won't unmount (says it's in use). hda9 unmounts fine. (incidentally, hda8
> is my /usr partition) I'm assuming umount is running from /usr or using
> libc on that partition, and thus cannot unmount it. How do I unmount it
> then? And why would this have happened in the first place? When I restart,
> both hda8 and hda9 are already mounted already (again). Any clues?
>
> -Paul
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