Re: can't umount /usr(/dev/hdb3)

1997-05-20 Thread Leslie Mikesell
> The other asnwers in this list are all very usefull, but sometimes > I find that whatever I do, I cannot unmount for example /usr. > In such cases, it's best to do > > mount -o remount,ro /usr > > i.e. remount it read-only, so that all data is written do the partition, > and you can now safel

Re: can't umount /usr(/dev/hdb3)

1997-03-31 Thread joost witteveen
> >The other asnwers in this list are all very usefull, but sometimes > >I find that whatever I do, I cannot unmount for example /usr. > >In such cases, it's best to do > > > > mount -o remount,ro /usr > > > >i.e. remount it read-only, so that all data is written do the partition, > >and you can n

Fixed...Re: can't umount /usr(/dev/hdb3)

1997-03-31 Thread David Puryear
Hi all, On 30-Mar-97 Dale Scheetz wrote: >> If you are in any of the mounted directories (including the top, e.g. >> /mnt), then umount would give this message and refues to unmount the >> device. >> >I don't know that this is strictly true. For instance, my fstab mounts >/usr from a seperate d

Re: can't umount /usr(/dev/hdb3)

1997-03-31 Thread Karl Ferguson
At 12:44 AM 31/03/97 +0200, joost witteveen wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I upgrade a lot of packages, don't know exactly which ones though, and now >> shutdown -h now and umount will not unmount /usr(aka /dev/hdb3). It gives me >> same error: >> umount: /dev/hdb3: device is busy >> >> Does a

Re: can't umount /usr(/dev/hdb3)

1997-03-30 Thread joost witteveen
> Hi all, > > I upgrade a lot of packages, don't know exactly which ones though, and now > shutdown -h now and umount will not unmount /usr(aka /dev/hdb3). It gives me > same error: > umount: /dev/hdb3: device is busy > > Does anyone have any idea as to what is causing this? The other

Re: can't umount /usr(/dev/hdb3)

1997-03-30 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Sat, 29 Mar 1997, Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote: > On Sat, 29 Mar 1997, David Puryear wrote: > > > I upgrade a lot of packages, don't know exactly which ones though, and now > > shutdown -h now and umount will not unmount /usr(aka /dev/hdb3). It gives me > > same error: > > umount: /dev/hd

Re: can't umount /usr(/dev/hdb3)

1997-03-30 Thread Graeme A Stewart
David Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hi all, > > I upgrade a lot of packages, don't know exactly which ones though, and now > shutdown -h now and umount will not unmount /usr(aka /dev/hdb3). It gives me > same error: > umount: /dev/hdb3: device is busy > Try doing `fuser -m

Re: can't umount /usr(/dev/hdb3)

1997-03-30 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On Sat, 29 Mar 1997, David Puryear wrote: > I upgrade a lot of packages, don't know exactly which ones though, and now > shutdown -h now and umount will not unmount /usr(aka /dev/hdb3). It gives me > same error: > umount: /dev/hdb3: device is busy > > Does anyone have any idea as to wha

can't umount /usr(/dev/hdb3)

1997-03-29 Thread David Puryear
Hi all, I upgrade a lot of packages, don't know exactly which ones though, and now shutdown -h now and umount will not unmount /usr(aka /dev/hdb3). It gives me same error: umount: /dev/hdb3: device is busy Does anyone have any idea as to what is causing this? Thanks, David p.s. From no