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- From: probreak@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (James Michael Chacon)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: umount and /proc
- Date: 1 Jan 1993 17:04:28 -0600
- Organization: Kansas State University
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- mnl@dtro.e-technik.th-darmstadt.de (Michael N. Lipp) writes:
-
- >I mount the /proc file system during boot with an fstab entry
-
- > /dev/kmem /proc proc
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- >When I halt the system (or when I try to unmount /proc by hand),
- >I get
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- > umount: /dev/kmem: not mounted
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- >bug or feature?
-
- >Michael
- >--
-
- Try using
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- /proc /proc proc
-
- in fstab instead. This works for me, and then I can umount it also.
- Otherwise you're asking the kernel to umount what it thinks is a block device
- that couldn't be mounted.
-
- James
-