2009/8/11 Jerry Feldman <gaf@xxxxxxx>: > 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. > Thanks a lot Jerry. I have been doing the proper shutdown without even realising why I should be doing it this way. :P -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
