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Re: umount: device busy



As far as I know there's no way to force umount, however I'd try to kill the
shell you've used to cd (perhaps you used pushd and not cd?). There's also a
useful utility called lsof that helps to find what processes locks devices.

                          Yuval

Erez Doron wrote:

> hi
>
> I've mounted an nfs partition, cd-d into it,
> cd-d out, and then tried umounting it,
> but i get : device busy
>
> i tried to use fuser, but got no output
> i tried to use umount -n, but still got device busy
>
> how can i umount it  ?
>
> btw: is there a way to umount it by force
> ( though it is busy )
>
> regards
> Erez.
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