FC 11 Boot mode single user [recovery password]

Jerry Feldman gaf at blu.org
Tue Aug 11 13:45:27 UTC 2009


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.

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