[Samba] how do i umount a device busy ?

Patrick Gunerud slu at firerun.net
Fri Feb 21 19:15:08 GMT 2003


Did you try "fuser -km /<mount>" to kill all processes accessing it then 
umount device?

Patrick

Ken Walker wrote:

>I have mounted a win98 machine from a ML8.1 samba 2.2.2
>
>The win98 machine, as all windows machines do, crashed on me. 
>
>Now i can't unmount the mounted folder, If i do it from cli, i get
>
>umount usr/Cad12: device busy.
>
>If i try and cd to that folder, the console freezes and only kill
>application will shut it down.
>
>I tried as su and on another Virtual console as root, but it will not
>umount. I've shut down the win98 machine and powered it up again. But it
>still will not umount.
>
>Also how do i kill a virtual console which is not responding.
>
>
>Many thanks
>
>Ken
>  
>




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