Re: umount

[Ingo Reimann <reimann@convert.uni-muenster.de>]

On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 08:27:53PM -0800, Dave Wiard wrote:
> is there any way to force umount to unconditionally unmount a drive? one
> of my cd drives is constantly touted as 'busy' when i know there's zero
> activity, so it refuses to unmount and hence i cannot eject. any help
> would be apreciated.
>
if you want to FORCE unmount, you you add -f :

umont -f /

no good idea, but it should work :-) 

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