Re: how can I (really) force a umount?

From: Baho Utot (baho-utot_at_philippines-island.org)
Date: 11/16/04

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    Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 23:54:50 GMT

    On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 10:24:57 -0500, Gary Dale wrote:

    > I'm connecting to a couple of shares on an XP Pro workstation - not a
    > good idea, I know, but it's convenient in this case except:
    >
    > sometimes the XP workstation gets rebooted while the shares are
    > connected. After that, I can't disconnect them and I can't reconnect
    > them. This creates a real problem because some programs (esp. under
    > wine) seem to read the full /mnt folder so they take forever.
    >
    > I've tried umount //server/share --force as root but it doesn't work. I
    > get 4 or 5 error messages telling me things like the device is busy, etc..
    >
    > Any solutions?

    see man lsof

    lsof
    kill processes holding drive/mount point
    umount

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