"umount: / is busy"

[Ralf Ertzinger]

Hi.

Florin Andrei <florin at andrei.myip.org> wrote:

> It is the reason why I pretty much always do "sync" before "reboot",
> "halt" or "poweroff".
> It would be nice if "sync" was included in the system scripts, right
> before doing umount.

I was under the impression that umounting a partition means that
sync is called implicitly. You have to free your dirty buffers before
removing the medium...


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