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- From: agc@weasel.demon.co.uk (Alan Charlton)
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- Subject: Re: 0.99 problem
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- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 12:13:51 +0000
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- In article <BzD54t.M46@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Jeff-Randall@uiuc.edu (Jeff Randall) writes:
- >
- > 10 to 1 you're now running crond or the TCP daemons (inted, named, etc)
- > which have a working directory somewhere in /usr. (/usr/spool/cron/crontabs
- > or /usr/etc/inet respectively)
- >
- > In order to unmount the partition, you cannot have any files accessing
- > it... kill the dameons off and try unmounting it manually.
- >
- > (Although, if it's just a problem at shutdown, it should not be a significant
- > problem, as long as the filesystems is sync'ed, there is no reason that the
- > filesystem has to be unmounted... you should be able to safely ignore
- > the warning).
- >
-
- I spent a few hours last night trying things - I hadn't thought of /usr/etc and
- /usr/spool/cron though......hmmmm.....I'll have a shufty at that tonight.
-
- BUT - and this the confusing part - if I just do a 'sync; umount -a' then everything
- unmounts without any complaints at all. Very weird.
-
- Yours clueless,
-
- Alan.
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