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Re: umount: device busy
On Sun, 1 Mar 1998, Yuval El-Hanany wrote:
> 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.
imho BSD derrived version oof mount/umount allows to -f (force) umount
>
> 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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