Crashing after umounting unavailable filesystems

[Doug White]

On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, William Denton wrote:

> On 10 November 2005, Michael C. Shultz wrote:
>
> >> Opps, I crashed the machine. When I moved it, I unplugged the
> >> USB DVD-RW and I had mounted one of the dist discs on there.
> >> When I did a umount it paniced. My bad.
>
> That happened to me the other day too.  I'd mounted a USB flash drive,
> unplugged the USB hub, replugged it, remounted the drive, and then of
> course I couldn't umount the first mount.  I did a umount -f and the
> machine crashed instantly.
>
> Is this the sort of thing that's really hard to handle, or might it be
> safer one day?  I don't know how serious it is to do bad things to mounted
> file systems, but I'm curious.

Its Hard To Handle.

:-)

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