5 Nov
2001
5 Nov
'01
2:43 p.m.
John Fremlin:
MJ Ray markj@cloaked.freeserve.co.uk writes:
Hold AltGr and SysRq, then tap out s u u b (sync, unmount, unmount, boot)
You should sync after umount too or else you'll probably get spurious fscks on boot (it needs to write a clean umount flag to the superblock)
Surely a sync won't do anything to a read-only disk? (OK, I lied: "u" is actually remount-read-only.)
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MJR