From: Pawel Gburzynski (pawel@cs.UAlberta.CA)
Date: 09/27/93


From: pawel@cs.UAlberta.CA (Pawel Gburzynski)
Subject: Re: Can't umount!
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1993 20:17:54 GMT

ryanm4@hall101.its.rpi.edu (Matthew J. Ryan) writes:

> Please help - I dont want to shutdown my system - This has
>happen before, same installation, and last time it ate
>/usr/local and /usr, and I had to reinstall.

umount won't work if the target directory (of a subdirectory thereof) is
the current directory of at least one process (including your shell).

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