On Sun, 11 Jul 2010 12:20:39 -0500 Victor Lowther <victor.lowther@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Jul 11, 2010, at 10:34 AM, Dieter Plaetinck <dieter@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > > fwiw in AIF I do something similar (see > > http://github.com/Dieterbe/aif/blob/master/src/core/libs/lib-blockdevices-filesystems.sh#L457 > > ) > > (but there i use a text file containing all mountpoints) > > > > The interesting thing is, to find the order in which you should > > mount or (or umount) blockdevices can be found by doing a normal > > alpabetical (reverse) sorting of the mountpoints, so i just use the > > sort tool. > > How so? Filesystems are not mounted in any particular order, > and /proc/ self/mounts lists the filesystems in the order they were > mounted. Using the sort command would screw up the mount ordering, > which means I would have to do more passes to properly umount things. ah, nevermind. with aif, the user specifies no specific order, so i mount all filesystems in the order that makes most sense (ie, first /home, then /home/someuser, then /home/someuser/blah). in your case, you want to use the "real order", even if it may seem weird. Dieter
