Received: from sender4-of-o53.zoho.com (sender4-of-o53.zoho.com [136.143.188.53]) by nld3-dev1.alpinelinux.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7F384781A7F for <~alpine/users@lists.alpinelinux.org>; Sat, 25 Jul 2020 22:24:31 +0000 (UTC) ARC-Seal: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; t=1595715868; cv=none; d=zohomail.com; s=zohoarc; b=i0L7b9AH/zl66gCe8a7qBppbmiXKXjbrnElJ5ut5usmIPVT0f0MBkNU5+y15Wmx0rUgMZZeS7H0UqDE89+X90U7PawHi+Tlc1V1Ip7I+KIWRFLxlo8fM7g25TRBCsZstWMadn36/VCU0wlPowNshS6pfzG0pwbk8OleJNaOYOrg= ARC-Message-Signature: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=zohomail.com; s=zohoarc; t=1595715868; h=Content-Type:Date:From:MIME-Version:Message-ID:Subject:To; bh=EVvxF6IsUmA4XvBqYz019jIta453PdaPJl8zdNYFxC8=; b=mQ14vMknT1yo2thu3WMcR92t0P2D2CF5KW2Biqgs19dxFYHo1ckyp4+O85A5tH1qQ/a2czCKX60pME+i0Glgnnx7DtrqYNGHbSFQS3ZuHGyJjTIr0BHkrtgmgGXeeRBuDRB5FBzncj0SQdtlSxHa76xz5QUYnbPwxQRN3Mz33Ks= ARC-Authentication-Results: i=1; mx.zohomail.com; dkim=pass header.i=tomaszubiri.com; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=correo@tomaszubiri.com; dmarc=pass header.from= header.from= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; t=1595715868; s=raiz; d=tomaszubiri.com; i=correo@tomaszubiri.com; h=Date:From:To:Message-Id:In-Reply-To:Subject:MIME-Version:Content-Type; bh=EVvxF6IsUmA4XvBqYz019jIta453PdaPJl8zdNYFxC8=; b=BidjM5IiLo8oT1IJwqUOiRvl1M1A5kcRKqd8FHX0z6t5o4E+zh9Er9e6AhOoBV4+ GmKTNmwmq/lU13sYfuk5YLRaGdasLll9M0zlCAL9QCElW0XAlEkPrMLarmwbsKMBi8A j8qg8665r9EMGTMF9pJ4pLZyQTjXssMpp89ye9GY= Received: from mail.zoho.com by mx.zohomail.com with SMTP id 1595715866951931.172170781698; Sat, 25 Jul 2020 15:24:26 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2020 19:24:26 -0300 From: Tomas To: "alpineusers" <~alpine/users@lists.alpinelinux.org> Message-Id: <1738813d0ed.afc5bc64378351.1214977881844480635@tomaszubiri.com> In-Reply-To: Subject: Unmounting disk after boot. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_1216649_1767314693.1595715866861" Importance: Medium User-Agent: Zoho Mail X-Mailer: Zoho Mail ------=_Part_1216649_1767314693.1595715866861 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello, one of alpine's key selling point is that it is so small that it can load itself into RAM. However I cannot unmount my usb once I booted, I must physically remove it and reattach it if I wish to inspect its contents, run fsck, format it or other actions. If I run 'ps ax' it seems that most processes are within brackets (I think this means they don't correspond to any file on disk) except for one related to 'login' and a few other ones about 'tty' Is this a known bug? Is there a way to safely unmount the drive used to boot? Thank you for your attention, and glory to the smol OS. ------=_Part_1216649_1767314693.1595715866861 Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Hello, one of alpine's key selling point is that it is so small that it can load itself into RAM. However I cannot unmount my usb once I booted, I must physically remove it and reattach it if I wish to inspect its contents, run fsck, format it or other actions.

If I run 'ps ax' it seems that most processes are within brackets (I think this means they don't correspond to any file on disk) except for one related to 'login' and a few other ones about 'tty'

Is this a known bug? Is there a way to safely unmount the drive used to boot?

Thank you for your attention, and glory to the smol OS.




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