From 9a59b793edd875211bf5816c1816aabbbd0af9b2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Bruce A. Mah" Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 03:32:27 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Mention the risks of umount -f. PR: 31883 Submitted by: Michael Lucas --- en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics/chapter.sgml | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics/chapter.sgml index 7c56f2fceb..8bfbd83eed 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics/chapter.sgml +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics/chapter.sgml @@ -694,7 +694,10 @@ option. All forms take to force unmounting, - and for verbosity. + and for verbosity. Be warned that + is not generally a good idea. Forcibly + unmounting filesystems might crash the computer or damage data + on the filesystem. and are used to unmount all mounted filesystems, possibly modified by the