[SunHELP] graphical login & umount -af / umountall -k

[Dale Ghent]

On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Ballweg, Christian wrote:

| Hi Gurus,
| 
| I discovered that it isn't possible to simply unmount all devices (except
| root, /usr, swap and /proc) without irritating the dtlogin-process and its
| childs.
| The manual of ufsdump says that it is necessary to have all devices
| quiescent _in whole_, execution of scripts switching to runlevel S and back
| isn't easy (because of password input) so I think the only way is umount
| .... are there different ideas on this?
| Can anyone tell me how to shut down CDE in order to make a full backup with
| unmounted devices?
| Is it sufficient to execute /etc/init.d/dtlogin stop before backup and start
| it afterwards?

Why unmount, when you can just write-lock the filesystem you want to back
up?

man lockfs

/dale