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Thanks.  Yes it looks as if this might be the case.  Do you have any ideas how I might get around this?  Or do I have to use a different shell?

Ralph

On Mon, 18 June 2001, Andreas Schwab wrote:

> 
> Ralph Jones <ralph.jones@altavista.com> writes:
> 
> |> I have followed the instructions given in Documentation/initrd.txt with regard to pivot_root, but am unable to unmount the filesystem, when everything is called from a non-interactive script. 
> |> 
> |> ie. When I set a link from linuxrc to /bin/ash and then manually go through the commands in the shell script, I am able to unmount the old initrd filesystem.  However, when linuxrc is a shell script containing the same commands, I am unable to umount the old initrd fs.  I get instead: "Device or resource busy".
> 
> Perhaps the shell didn't close the filedescriptor on the script.
> 
> Andreas.
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