Re: fmount system call

Matthias Urlichs (smurf@work.smurf.noris.de)
25 Jul 1997 19:39:33 +0200

Tall cool one <ice@mama.indstate.edu> writes:
>
> I'll second that. There have been several times I wish I could force
> unmount a hard NFS mount, or a drive that was acting screwy. And since I
> couldn't umount them, I couldn't unmount the drives they were mounted on, so
> next reboot was a e2fsck-free-for-all.
>
Actually, you can mount -o remount,ro them. No fsck necessary.