Re: the umount() saga for regular linux desktop users

From: Adrian Bunk
Date: Sun Jan 02 2005 - 15:14:51 EST


On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 08:37:24PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:

> Well, umount -l can be handy, but it does not allow you to get your CD
> back from the drive.
>
> umount --kill that kills whoever is responsible for filesystem being
> busy would solve part of the problem (that can be done in userspace,
> today).
>...

What's wrong with

fuser -k /mnt && umount /mnt

?


> Pavel

cu
Adrian

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