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Date:      Thu, 11 Dec 2003 14:09:36 -0500 (EST)
From:      Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
To:        dlavigne6@sympatico.ca (Dru)
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: umounting /
Message-ID:  <200312111909.hBBJ9bV23219@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20031211140728.S637@genisis> from "Dru" at Dec 11, 2003 02:09:14 PM

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> Is this the only way to unmount the root filesystem:
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> umount -a
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> When I try "umount /", I get this error:
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> 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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> Dru
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