Re: unmounting a filesystem mounted by /init (initramfs)

From: Denis Vlasenko (vda_at_ilport.com.ua)
Date: 07/29/05

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    To: Rafael EspĂ­ndola <rafael.espindola@gmail.com>, gentoo-dev@gentoo.org, gentoo-catalyst@gentoo.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Date:	Fri, 29 Jul 2005 08:34:35 +0300

    On Friday 29 July 2005 01:49, you wrote:
    > I am trying to build a system that uses a unionfs as root. The init
    > script is based on the one used by gentoo and uses initramfs. The
    > problem is how to remount the unionfs constituents read only during
    > halt.
    >
    > cat /proc/mounts displays /dev/hda1 (ext2) mounted rw in /memory. The
    > problem is that /memory is no longer visible after the init script did
    > a chroot and a

    "A chroot"? Better provide exact sequence of mounts, chroots which you
    execute. Otherwise people need to guess.
     
    > mount -o remount,ro /dev/hda1
    >
    > says that /dev/hda1 is not mounted!
    >
    > does any anyone has an idea?

    Use lazy umount (umount -l) while fs is still visible 

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