umounting /

Jerry McAllister jerrymc at clunix.cl.msu.edu
Thu Dec 11 11:09:57 PST 2003


> 
> 
> Is this the only way to unmount the root filesystem:
> 
> umount -a
> 
> When I try "umount /", I get this error:
> 
> umount: unmount of / failed: Invalid argument
> 
> The manpage doesn't give any hints on why that argument is invalid...

You can't un mount root.
You can only reassert the mount.

////jerry

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