[lug] Force umount

[Michael Belanger]

To add to this wise comment, *you* also need to be outside of the 
directory to umount it.. your original post shows that you are currently 
inside the problem mount point.



D. Stimits wrote:

> Shannon Johnston wrote:
> 
>> I've got a smb mount that is being difficult. I'm not sure what's wrong
>> but I'm getting some I/O errors. Does anybody know of a way to force
>> umount?
> 
> 
> Almost forgot...if you are using a shell and you "cd /mnt/somewhere/", 
> then /mnt/somewhere/ is in use by that shell. All users should cd out of 
> the mounted volume before umount.
> 
> D. Stimits, stimits AT comcast DOT net
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