reboot / umount ordering

[Ralf Friedl]

Kittlitz, Edward (Ned) wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have trouble getting my ext3 disk filesystems unmounted during reboot.
>
> I don't know the names of all the processes, so I don't think I can 
> use "killall".  And another inittab "shutdown" action "/bin/umount -a 
> -r" can fail on certain filesystems; I don't know why yet.
>
> It seems to me that busybox shutdown_system() should be trying to 
> unmount everything after all processes have been killed.
>
You can try
kill -15 -1
sleep 2
kill -9 -1
umount -a -r

Regards
Ralf Friedl