Re: the umount() saga for regular linux desktop users

[Puneet Vyas]

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
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