i am at remote, so shutdown now INAGT (is not a good thing). :<

so I umount -f it

On Tue, 17 Jun 1997, Mike Long wrote:

> >Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 01:03:07 -0500 (CDT)
> >From: "Tom T. Thai" <tomthai@future.net>
> >
> >I tried:
> >
> ># umount /var/spool/news
> >umount: /var/spool/news: Device busy
> >
> ># newfs /dev/rccd0d
> >newfs: /dev/rccd0d: Device busy
> >
> >how do I unbz this thing so I can try newfs-ing it to see if it's bad?
> 
> You're probably running innd or some other process which has something
> under /var/spool/news as it's current directory, hence the first
> 'device busy' message.  '/sbin/shutdown now' should take care of it
> (by putting your machine into single-user mode); I would recommend
> shutting down to single-user before any major disk surgery.
> -- 
> Mike Long <mikel@shore.net>                http://www.shore.net/~mikel
> "Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands,
> hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats." -- H.L. Mencken
> 


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