Re: [MiNT] How to unmount a partition?

[Martin-Eric Racine <q-funk@pp.fishpool.fi>]

On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Michael Schwingen wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 19, 2000 at 01:25:18AM +0100, Guido Flohr wrote:
> > Before you can unmount you would have to mount and that has several
> > disadvantages, ask Frank about it.  Besides, there are few machines 
> 
> The mounting can be done automatically just like the kernel
> does now. Think of unmounting as flushing all dirty buffers and
> setting a read-only flag on the device. 

This could work for mounting, in the sense of removable disks. 

For other things, symbolic linking cannot replace mounting.  If I
want /usr/local on a writable drive, but the main /usr hierarchy
from a read-only drive (such as a spare CD drive), I cannot do
this anymore; the whole /usr must be on the same partition. 

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