Re: umount

[Ian Zimmerman <itz@lbin.com>]

>>>>> "Dave" == Dave Wiard <dave@lister.acm.wwu.edu> writes:

Dave> is there any way to force umount to unconditionally unmount a drive? one
Dave> of my cd drives is constantly touted as 'busy' when i know there's zero
Dave> activity, so it refuses to unmount and hence i cannot eject. any help
Dave> would be apreciated.

Well, what do you mean by "activity"?  There's a couple of reasons why
the kernel can consider a mount point busy.  An obvious one is that a
process has a directory on the CD as its cwd.  That could be a daemon
or a zombie, so you need not know about it.  Maybe you should look in
the /proc hierarchy for clue the next time it happens.

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