At Fri, 25 May 2001 12:54:50 -0400,
Chris Szilagyi wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I recently installed Red Hat 7.1 using the SGI-XFS cd. After
> installation, I noticed that whenever I shutdown, the system gives an
> error of "umount: /dev: device is busy" and complains it can't unmount
> /dev. From my experiences so far, this doesn't appear to happen if I
> install with Red Hat's cd's, without using the SGI-XFS cd.
>
> Everybody else I know that has installed Red Hat 7.1 with the SGI-XFS cd
> has had the same problem, and we can't find an answer. Are there any
> issues that you know of about this or a fix for it?
This isn't a problem.
/dev is handled via devfs by default, and whatever reason does not
unmount at shutdown time, but since all devices are generated
internally by devfs nothing is lost by and unmount failure.
The easiest fix is to ignore the error. :-)
>
> Thanks,
> --
> Chris
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