From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 28 22:09:51 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: current@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC6EC16A420 for ; Sat, 28 Jan 2006 22:09:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from fullermd@over-yonder.net) Received: from mail.localelinks.com (web.localelinks.com [64.39.75.54]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 236C443D49 for ; Sat, 28 Jan 2006 22:09:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from fullermd@over-yonder.net) Received: from draco.over-yonder.net (adsl-072-148-013-213.sip.jan.bellsouth.net [72.148.13.213]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.localelinks.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC65CAD; Sat, 28 Jan 2006 16:09:49 -0600 (CST) Received: by draco.over-yonder.net (Postfix, from userid 100) id 74C5561C38; Sat, 28 Jan 2006 16:09:48 -0600 (CST) Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 16:09:48 -0600 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" To: Craig Boston , Kris Kennaway , current@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: <20060128220948.GI1388@over-yonder.net> References: <20060128000909.GA69458@xor.obsecurity.org> <43DABFCA.5030509@mac.com> <20060128005304.GA70164@xor.obsecurity.org> <20060128013955.GH1388@over-yonder.net> <20060128034539.GA44075@nowhere> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060128034539.GA44075@nowhere> X-Editor: vi X-OS: FreeBSD User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11-fullermd.2 Cc: Subject: Re: /c: unmount pending error: blocks -68512 files 0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 22:09:51 -0000 On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 09:45:39PM -0600 I heard the voice of Craig Boston, and lo! it spake thus: > > I ended up having to modify the script to unmount /config completely > and then mount it read-only... I've modified my CVSup script (the cvs repo is on a r/o partition, to save me fscking a half million inodes) to end with a nice pretty "sync;sync;sync ; sleep 2 ; sync;sync ; sleep 1 ; sync" sequence before it remounts the partition r/o. Unmounting I s'pose would work to (and I do that on my box that's a little more -current where I _can't_ mount -u many partitions), though that doesn't work quite so well for partition like /... > I don't think it's quite the same as Kris's problem though as I've > never seen it with a negative number. Thinking back, I don't believe I have either. -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ On the Internet, nobody can hear you scream.