Re: Unmounting

Jonathan Masters (mastersj@periscope-systems.freeserve.co.uk)
Mon, 16 Aug 1999 16:31:54 +0100


Thanx. That'll do, but it'd still be useful to do similar without killing the
process concerned, simply make it's cwd unavailable.

Jon.

Glynn Clements wrote:

> Jonathan Masters wrote:
>
> > You are indeed correct. Sometime recently, they must have fixed this problem.
> > I'd still reallylove to be able to umount a device (say /mnt/backup or
> > /mnt/cdrom1, mnt/cdrom2, etc...) even if someone is currently using that as
> > their cwd. I really *need* this feature. Could someone please tell me
> > how/provide it thanx.
>
> fuser -k -m /mnt/cdrom1
> umount /mnt/cdrom1
>
> --
> Glynn Clements <glynn@sensei.co.uk>

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