Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2005 21:15:22 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: luto@myrealbox.com, aebr@win.tue.nl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: the umount() saga for regular linux desktop users
Message-ID: <20050102201522.GE18136@elf.ucw.cz>
References: <20050102193724.GA18136@elf.ucw.cz> <20050102201147.GB4183@stusta.de>
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Hi!

> > 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

Okay, probably nothing (I knew about fuser, but did not know about -k
option...). fuser followed by ps and kill is not nice.

[Perhaps umount could tell user about fuser -k ?]
								Pavel
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