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From: sdowdy@charon.unm.edu (Stephen Dowdy)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Dismounting a /System Drive
Message-ID: <2976@charon.unm.edu>
Date: 30 Apr 88 21:21:38 GMT
Reply-To: sdowdy@ariel.unm.edu (Stephen Dowdy)
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
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I have recently needed to dismount drives mounted with /system.  I have only
been partially successful.

I have turned quotas off, de-installed images that are on the device, attempted
to STOP/ID processes with open files...  Sometimes this clears out all open
files (Show Dev /Files reveals only INDEXF.SYS open), but sometimes i am
left with open files attached to processes that return
	nonexistent process
when i try to examine them.

So, my question is: Is there a sure-fire method of Dismounting a drive
while the system is still running?  And what to do about the "ghost"
processes holding files?

Thanks,
--stephen dowdy
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