Date: Sat, 04 Oct 1997 18:24:33 +0200 (CEST) From: Mariusz Potocki <potok@friko.onet.pl> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: George Vagner <vagner@spdc.ti.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Subject: Re: try this Message-ID: <XFMail.971004200335.potok@friko.onet.pl> In-Reply-To: <19971003170931.25574@lemis.com>
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On 03-Oct-97 Greg Lehey wrote: >On Thu, Oct 02, 1997 at 11:48:29PM -0700, Doug White wrote: >> On Sat, 27 Sep 1997, George Vagner wrote: >> >>> run startx and then run xfm go to your /cdrom directory using xfm, >>> now move your mouse to another active xterm and type umount /cdrom >>> all hell breaks loose >>> and i cant do anyhing, i had to reboot by the reset button which scared me. >> >> Yeah, that's what happens when you unmount a filesystem that someone is >> attached to. Suggestion: don't do it. :-) > >That doesn't stop this being a bug. It shouldn't be possible to >umount a file system which is in use. I suppose somebody should enter >a pr about this one. > >Greg In my opinion it should be a command to remove users that are in the filesystem that we want to unmount. On HP-UX I used to use 'fuser' that do this kind of thing. Mariusz "verba volant, scripta manent"
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