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From: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Cc: Harald Dunkel <harald.dunkel@aixigo.com>, util-linux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: careful with that umount options, Eugene
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2019 19:31:47 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190606233147.GB23169@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190606125947.6rrdlkhioxx7adwl@ws.net.home>

On Thu, Jun 06, 2019 at 02:59:47PM +0200, Karel Zak wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 04, 2019 at 01:51:58PM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote:
> > Hi folks
> > 
> > by accident I pasted
> > 
> > 	umount ls -al /mnt/
> > 
> > into bash. My bad. AFAICT /proc was umounted immediately, the
> > rest died slowly. Don't try this at home.
> 
> Fixed ... new version:
> 
>  # umount ls -al /mnt/
>  umount: unexpected arguments
>  Try 'umount --help' for more information.

Hmm...  Should we also prevent a lazy unmount of the root file system?

	       	       	       	 - Ted

  reply	other threads:[~2019-06-06 23:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-06-04 11:51 careful with that umount options, Eugene Harald Dunkel
2019-06-04 13:55 ` Václav Doležal
2019-06-06 12:59 ` Karel Zak
2019-06-06 23:31   ` Theodore Ts'o [this message]
2019-06-07  7:20     ` Karel Zak
2019-06-07 13:26       ` Theodore Ts'o

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