"Bruce E. Harris" wrote:
> Hi Dave,
>
> I solved my problem by using the same fstab I had with Caldera which does not
> use supermount. I have my floppy and zip setup to used vfat, dos or ext2
> formats.
>
> Regards,
>
> Bruce
>
> On Tue, 23 May 2000, you wrote:
> > Hi Bruce, Civileme et al.
> >
> > I've just installed Mandrake 7.0 and found the same problem (with umounting
> > file systems while shutting down). I'm not an expert [I barely make it as a
> > newbie], but what I've found is that the problem is with my Floppy drive
> > (and possibly CD drive if there is no CD in it). Before shutting down, I
> > have to su login as root, umount the floppy and then it's okay. I've
> > installed mandrake on my laptop and I'm the only user at the moment, so
> > this is not a major problem (unless I forget -- which happens), but i guess
> > I should find a neater solution.
> >
> > HTH.
> >
> > Dave
The "neater" solution is to edit the shutdown scripts to call
supermount disable
once they get to superusr equivalence.
and put
supermount enable
in /etc/rc.local
If you are also using these commands on the fly, and you want the current
setting to be restored next boot, you would need to set up an "if" to test
whether supermount is enabled during shutdown and if it is then echo a 1 to a
/tmp/. file to test next boot to reenable rather than the brute force method I
just described.
It all depends on how elegant you want to be.
My own "neat solution" is a huge UPS and keeping my paws off the shutdown
button unless I am swapping hardware. I have one machine here with GUI running
and 192 days uptime.
Civileme
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