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szt

Member

Registered: 2012-08-23

Posts: 14

/var always fails to unmount

Hi,

Whenever I shutdown/reboot my system, I see in the logs that /var always fails to unmount. My /var is a crypted luks partition and I have several tmpfs placed inside luks. I have never experienced any errors due to that issue, but I am really worried that this could lead to data leaks or such.

Sadly, I have no idea how that did happen. So I am hope that someone around here could lead me to a solution of my problem.

Thanks in advance,

szt

googol-1

Member

Registered: 2012-10-21

Posts: 22

Re: /var always fails to unmount

Do you have the shutdown HOOKS in your mkinitcpio.conf?

If not, try if it helps to add it.

Last edited by googol-1 (2012-11-16 13:58:14)

szt

Member

Registered: 2012-08-23

Posts: 14

Re: /var always fails to unmount

Didn't help. It still occurs.

Could it be connected to the order of my /etc/fstab?

falconindy

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From: New York, USA

Registered: 2009-10-22

Posts: 4,111

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Re: /var always fails to unmount

The shutdown hook will absolutely help. If it doesn't, you should post the failure.

No, order of fstab is irrelevant.

Last edited by falconindy (2012-11-17 14:28:27)

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bernarcher

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From: Germany

Registered: 2009-02-17

Posts: 2,281

Re: /var always fails to unmount

/var usually fails to unmount because the journal is still in use. I had some weird problems with /var until I noticed that I did miss the shutdown hook. Since then: no more problems of this kind.

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