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From: Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>
Subject: Re: docs/31883: warning in Handbook about umount -f
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The following reply was made to PR docs/31883; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>
To: Cyrille Lefevre <clefevre@citeweb.net>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: docs/31883: warning in Handbook about umount -f
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 09:48:05 -0500

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 On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 01:53:50AM +0100, Cyrille Lefevre wrote:
 > mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org wrote:
 > > 
 > > !         unmounting filesystems can crash the computer or damage data
 >                                    ^^^ may
 > > !         on the filesystem.</para>
 
 As someone else suggested, "might" is probably most appropriate here.
 But thanks.
 
 Patch attached.
 
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 Michael Lucas
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 *** en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics/chapter.sgml-dist	Fri Nov  9 14:21:12 2001
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   	<option>-A</option> option.</para>
           
         <para>All forms take <option>-f</option> to force unmounting,
 ! 	and <option>-v</option> for verbosity.</para>
           
         <para><option>-a</option> and <option>-A</option> are used to
   	unmount all mounted filesystems, possibly modified by the
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   	<option>-A</option> option.</para>
           
         <para>All forms take <option>-f</option> to force unmounting,
 !         and <option>-v</option> for verbosity.  Be warned that
 !         <option>-f</option> is not generally a good idea.  Forcibly
 !         unmounting filesystems might crash the computer or damage data
 !         on the filesystem.</para>
           
         <para><option>-a</option> and <option>-A</option> are used to
   	unmount all mounted filesystems, possibly modified by the
 
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