From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 11 11:09:57 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E95116A4CE for ; Thu, 11 Dec 2003 11:09:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37D6B43D3E for ; Thu, 11 Dec 2003 11:09:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) id hBBJ9bV23219; Thu, 11 Dec 2003 14:09:37 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200312111909.hBBJ9bV23219@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: dlavigne6@sympatico.ca (Dru) Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 14:09:36 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <20031211140728.S637@genisis> from "Dru" at Dec 11, 2003 02:09:14 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: umounting / X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 19:09:57 -0000 > > > Is this the only way to unmount the root filesystem: > > umount -a > > When I try "umount /", I get this error: > > umount: unmount of / failed: Invalid argument > > The manpage doesn't give any hints on why that argument is invalid... You can't un mount root. You can only reassert the mount. ////jerry > > Dru > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >