On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 19:49 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: > 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. > >
Except for / (root) which is always busy with open log files. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
