[Gllug] Unmounting an in-use file system

[t.clarke]

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The fuser command lists processes that are using a file or filesystem, I believe

It also appears to support a kill feature, which kills off with sig 15 all
processes using the file(s)

So, you could try:

fuser -m /dev/filesys -k; sleep 10, umount filesys

and see what happens



Tim


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