Greg,

On Wednesday 17 January 2007 18:44, Greg Wallace wrote:
> ...
>
> So I guess there was nothing wrong with umount /dev/hda2, it was
> simply unmountable, so to speak, for other reasons.

The only file system that can never by unmounted is the root file 
system.


> ...
> >
> >The "mount" command shows which device is mounted on which mount
> > point (a directory).
>
> Thanks.  I'll make note of that.
>
> ...
>
> Ok, so there was nothing wrong with what I entered, it's just that
> the filesystem was unmountable.

Unmountable _AT THE MOMENT!_ There are no file systems (other than the 
root) that cannot be unmounted.

There are rare conditions when file operations hang (identifiable by 
a 'D' value in the "STAT" column of the "ps -l" output), but truly this 
is a rare (and, by definition, erroneous) circumstance.


> ...
> Thanks,
> Greg Wallace


Randall Schulz
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