Re: FC 11 Boot mode single user [recovery password]

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2009/8/11 Jerry Feldman <gaf@xxxxxxx>:
> On 08/10/2009 06:39 PM, suvayu ali wrote:
>>> umount /mnt/sysimage
>>> >
>>> > The reboot. The umount is very important.
>>>
>> Just for knowledge's sake, why is the umount so important?
>>
> Actually, before the umount, you probably want to exit the chroot shell.
> umount is important in that it forces all data to be written. If you did
> a proper shutdown, the file system mounted on /mnt/sysimage would be
> unmounted during the shutdown process, but my background goes back to
> older Unix systems where things were less stable than they are today.
>

Thanks a lot Jerry. I have been doing the proper shutdown without even
realising why I should be doing it this way. :P

-- 
Suvayu

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