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From: Bourne <bourne@ToughGuy.net>
To: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Unmounting a busy RO-Filesystem
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 06:36:35 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DFE789B.9020507@ToughGuy.net> (raw)

I have 3 partitions. /dev/hda3 for '/' , /dev/hda1 for /boot and 
/dev/hda2 for swap.

I boot & then i do a CTRL+ALT+SYSRQ+U.  '/' and '/boot' are now 
remounted ReadOnly.

1) cd '/boot'
2) umount /boot ----> This gives me an error "Device Busy"
3) cd /
4) umount / -------> No error
5) echo $? -----> outputs '0' indicating success. !!!!!!!!

When i do the above by skipping the Sysrq part, i get the usual expected 
errors.

So is the above behaviour expected ? I tried this on 2.4.19 & 2.5.51. 
Same results.

I am subscribed to the list

TIA
Bourne


             reply	other threads:[~2002-12-16 12:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-12-17  1:06 Bourne [this message]
2002-12-16 18:03 ` Unmounting a busy RO-Filesystem Denis Vlasenko
2002-12-16 18:17   ` Steven Dake

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