Re: how can I (really) force a umount?
From: Mihai Osian (zzz_at_zzz.com)
Date: 11/16/04
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Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 21:14:14 +0100
Baho Utot wrote:
> 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
fuser -k path
is even better
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