On Wednesday 17 January 2007 19:12, Marc Wilson wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 06:55:05PM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote:
> > Unmountable _AT THE MOMENT!_ There are no file systems (other than
> > the root) that cannot be unmounted.
>
> While that may be true in theory, in practice it's really not a good
> idea to tell cluebies that.

Eh?

You'd rather have them pull the plug and risk file system corruption?


> Or have you never gotten to watch what happens when you un-mount /usr
> from under someone?  Things don't work very well after that.

All I'm saying is that once you disoncontinue all active uses of a 
mounted file system (including working directories), it can be 
unmounted safely. That's true and useful information.


> --
>  Marc Wilson


RRS
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