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

[Ballweg, Christian]

Hi Dale,

as far as i understood this it isn't sufficient to do this.
Anyway: why not?
This is a general problem I want to fix.

Chris

> -----Urspr=FCngliche Nachricht-----
> Von:	Dale Ghent [SMTP:daleg at elemental.org]
> Gesendet am:	Freitag, 6. April 2001 09:50
> An:	'SunHELP'
> Betreff:	Re: [SunHELP] graphical login & umount -af / umountall -k
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> On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Ballweg, Christian wrote:
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> | Hi Gurus,
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> | 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?
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> Why unmount, when you can just write-lock the filesystem you want to =
back
> up?
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> man lockfs
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> /dale
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