On 01/30/2012 06:20 PM, Dag Wieers wrote:
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>
> I know, that is why I was confused. Why would anyone refer to the
> /mnt/sysimage filesystem, while in fact it was the root filesystem (and
> it was even corrupt!).
>
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I was using imprecise language.  More precise language would be the file 
system formatted within a hard drive partition, said partition mounted 
onto the rescue default mount point /mnt/sysimage .  My apologies for 
the imprecision.  Nonetheless, said partition was mounted read-write by 
the rescue image booted operating system environment, and was not the 
partition from which mount was executing.  I did perform a manual umount 
of said partition, and a subsequent invocation of mount showed said 
partition absent -- hence, I presumed that the partition was 
successfully unmounted.  Nonetheless, upon reboot, the regular (not 
rescue) operating system environment reported that the partition had not 
been cleanly unmounted.

Yasha Karant