> On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 08:27:53PM -0800, Dave Wiard wrote:
> > is there any way to force umount to unconditionally unmount a drive? one
> > of my cd drives is constantly touted as 'busy' when i know there's zero
> > activity, so it refuses to unmount and hence i cannot eject. any help
> > would be apreciated.
> >
> if you want to FORCE unmount, you you add -f :
>
> umont -f /
>
> no good idea, but it should work :-)
>
Will it work ?
[22:35:15 /tmp]$ man umount | grep -A2 -e -f
-f Force unmount (in case of an unreachable NFS sysÂ
tem). (Requires kernel 2.1.116 or later.)
