Re: [gentoo-dev] unmounting a filesystem mounted by /init (initramfs)

[Ned Ludd]

On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 08:48 -0300, Rafael Ávila de Espíndola wrote:
> On Thursday 28 July 2005 23:50, Jeff Walter wrote:
> > Rafael,
> >
> >      I have no clue if this will work, but maybe try the -n option.  The
> > man says that it won't write to /etc/mtab, but I'm hoping it will ignore it
> > as well and just go for the mount.  Also, you'll be remounting / as
> > read-only effectively, so you won't be able to write /etc/mtab anyways.
> The halt.sh script copies /proc/mounts to /etc/mtab before trying to unmount,
> so I think that this is not the problem.

In the embedded world /etc/mtab is often a symlink to ../proc/mounts and
everything works well.

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Ned Ludd <solar@g.o>

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