Re: Forced umount

[Richard B. Johnson]

On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
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> 
> To put it another way: Is there any chance to umount / cleanly if / is local
> and /smbserver is a mounted remote SMB filesystem where the network link to
> the SMB server just went down? (Without waiting half an hour for a timeout.)
> 
> Thanks for your answer
> 
> Carl-Daniel
> 

You don't need to unmount a network drive (or any drive)
from a mount-point on a file-system before you umount that
file-system!

In other words, if I have quark:/tmp mounted on /tmp, I can
umount / without unmounting quark:/tmp. 

If the network file-system is r/o or otherwise immune to
incomplete operations, you can shut down your client system
with impunity.

For example:

Script started on Fri Oct 18 15:01:59 2002
# mount quark:/tmp /tmp
# df
Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb1             16603376   6434704   9325264  41% /
/dev/sdc1              6356624   1198700   4835020  20% /alt
/dev/sdc3              2253284   1768580    370244  83% /home/users
/dev/sda1              1048272    282768    765504  27% /dos/drive_C
/dev/sda5              1046224    181280    864944  17% /dos/drive_D
quark:/tmp              813598    430482    341082  56% /tmp
# umount /dos/drive_C
# umount /dos/drive_D
# umount /home/users
# umount /alt
# umount /
# df
Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb1             16603376   6434704   9325264  41% /
quark:/tmp              813598    430482    341082  56% /tmp
# > /xxx
bash: /xxx: Read-only file system
# > /tmp/xxx
# df
Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb1             16603376   6434704   9325264  41% /
quark:/tmp              813598    430482    341082  56% /tmp
# exit
exit

Script done on Fri Oct 18 15:05:39 2002

As you can see, '/' is now read-only, but /tmp is read-write.
It is save to hit the reset button or otherwise halt the CPU
at this time.

If your shutdown scripts or code 'think' you need to unmount
all the mount-points before you unmount '/', they are broken
and need to be fixed.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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