On Wednesday 17 January 2007 21:43, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
On 2007-01-17 22:49, Randall R Schulz wrote: ...
"If you reduce the number of uses of file-system entities on the file system in question to zero, then the umount command [...] will succeed."
Randall,
I have to agree with Marc on this. ...
The person asked about unmounting when the "device is busy" diagnostic results. He wanted to run fsck. He was in run level 3. His goal is reasonable and my response was valid. That's really all there is to it.
Whether or not something is possible in principle is not the point here.
Whether or not it conforms to your or my idea of advisable is also not the point.
The question is, can the advice be followed without potential for making a serious mess of things?
There is never any damage caused by non-forcibly unmounting a file system.
In the hands of the less-than-experienced, the answer here is certainly "no", and so the advice should not be given.
Right. Withhold facts to protect the naive. Sorry, I don't agree with that philosophy. Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org