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From: Oleg Drokin <green@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: umount --force fails
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 12:12:04 +0400
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To: Anders Widman <andewid@tnonline.net>
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Hello!

On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 10:38:47PM +0200, Anders Widman wrote:

>    Why can't I use "umount /mnt/disk --force"?

It is only implemented for NFS. At least that's what my man page says.

>    Is there a way that I can get around this? I thought that "--force"
>    would  force  an umount of the filesystem even if some program were
>    using it?

I think it is possible to do that for any fs, but some decisions should be made like
what to do with processes having open filehandles/cwd to the mounted filesystem and so on.
Please consult lkml archives for more info on that topic.

Bye,
    Oleg