From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261375AbVACBgY (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Jan 2005 20:36:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261381AbVACBgY (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Jan 2005 20:36:24 -0500 Received: from out002pub.verizon.net ([206.46.170.141]:41466 "EHLO out002.verizon.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261375AbVACBgW (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Jan 2005 20:36:22 -0500 Message-ID: <41D8A18B.7090507@verizon.net> Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2005 20:36:11 -0500 From: Puneet Vyas User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: the umount() saga for regular linux desktop users References: <20050102193724.GA18136@elf.ucw.cz> <20050102201147.GB4183@stusta.de> <20050102203610.GD4183@stusta.de> In-Reply-To: <20050102203610.GD4183@stusta.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out002.verizon.net from [68.239.182.186] at Sun, 2 Jan 2005 19:36:21 -0600 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Adrian Bunk wrote: >On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 09:11:47PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > >>On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 08:37:24PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: >> >> >> >>>Well, umount -l can be handy, but it does not allow you to get your CD >>>back from the drive. >>> >>>umount --kill that kills whoever is responsible for filesystem being >>>busy would solve part of the problem (that can be done in userspace, >>>today). >>>... >>> >>> >>What's wrong with >> >> fuser -k /mnt && umount /mnt >>... >> >> > >I meant > > fuser -km /mnt && umount /mnt > >cu >Adrian > > > I'm as newbie as they get but the above command just made my system freeze hard and I could do nothing but reboot (use the power switch). I had nothing mounted there but have a directory under /mnt where I occasionaly mount my samba share. (which was not mounted when I tried this) . So much for user friendlyness ... oh well ... ~puneet