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- From: thoth@uiuc.edu (Ben Cox)
- Subject: Re: shutdown problem
- References: <712076211.F00054@remote.halcyon.com> <sa7JoB3w164w@q106fm.UUCP>
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- Reply-To: thoth@uiuc.edu (Ben Cox)
- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 00:35:29 GMT
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- pete@q106fm.UUCP (pete cervasio) writes:
-
- >I've found that umount will not unmount a busy drive... '/' is ALWAYS
- >mounted because you can't get any higher in the directory tree. The big
- >red switch is what umounts that one. If you 'cd /' before shutdown, it
- >should get rid of the other message, though.
-
- You may also need to kill cron, if you're running it. It cd's down
- into its own directory, which on my system is under /usr.
-
- Still, though, for me, sometimes shutdown works and sometimes it just
- sits there forever (well, at least, until I get impatient and hit ^C).
-
- --
- Ben Cox
- thoth@uiuc.edu
-