From: thoth@uiuc.edu (Ben Cox) Subject: Re: shutdown problem Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 00:35:29 GMT
pete@q106fm.UUCP (pete cervasio) writes:
>I've found that umount will not unmount a busy drive... '/' is ALWAYS
>mounted because you can't get any higher in the directory tree. The big
>red switch is what umounts that one. If you 'cd /' before shutdown, it
>should get rid of the other message, though.
You may also need to kill cron, if you're running it. It cd's down
into its own directory, which on my system is under /usr.
Still, though, for me, sometimes shutdown works and sometimes it just
sits there forever (well, at least, until I get impatient and hit ^C).