Re: cannot umount an vfat partition "kidnaped" by aMule

[Adam Porter <adam@alphapapa.net>]

Joaquin CARABALLO MORENO wrote:

> That's a good idea, thank you. I read in the man that after umount -l 
> the partition isn't accesible from the fs, and it will actually be
> unmounted when current references end.
> 
> In this way at least any other attempt to access to the partition won't
> be successful, but, if possible, I'd prefer to know some way to kill the
> application and/or force it to leave the partition inmediatly.

I read that in the man page, but my experience has always been that it
works immediately, even if plain "umount" won't.  A "mount" after
"umount -l" has always shown the partition as unmounted for me.
Strange, I know.