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SubjectRe: shutdown and not unmounting root
On Sun, Nov 08, 1998 at 02:23:25PM +0000, Dominik Strasser wrote:

> I cannot unmount the root directory in 2.1.126. / is on /dev/hdd3, hda
> and hdb aren't connected (the IDE controller is not working) hdc
> contains an NT volume. I use mount 2.9e (from util-linux 2.9e) but mount
> 2.8 didn't work either. I am not sure when this behavior started but it
> must have been the 2.1.11* series.
> After the kill -9 -1 in /etc/rc.d/rc.6, there are only 3 processes:
> kflushd, kswapd, sh rc.6 which do not hold any files. umount -a just
> gives "/ busy".
> Does anybody have any clues as I don't have any. I once tried Andrea's
> busy inode patch but this one didn't emit anything.

I can confirm this report. On one of my machines it happens quite often,
on the others never. Several times when it happened I scanned /proc for
open files and there were none.

Ralf

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