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. -- Jerry Feldman <gaf@xxxxxxx> Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846
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