how can I (really) force a umount?

[Gary Dale]

I'm connecting to a couple of shares on an XP Pro workstation - not a
good idea, I know, but it's convenient in this case except:

sometimes the XP workstation gets rebooted while the shares are
connected. After that, I can't disconnect them and I can't reconnect
them. This creates a real problem because some programs (esp. under
wine) seem to read the full /mnt folder so they take forever.

I've tried umount //server/share --force as root but it doesn't work. I
get 4 or 5 error messages telling me things like the device is busy, etc..

Any solutions?

[Baho Utot]

Post by Gary Dale
I'm connecting to a couple of shares on an XP Pro workstation - not a
sometimes the XP workstation gets rebooted while the shares are
connected. After that, I can't disconnect them and I can't reconnect
them. This creates a real problem because some programs (esp. under
wine) seem to read the full /mnt folder so they take forever.
I've tried umount //server/share --force as root but it doesn't work. I
get 4 or 5 error messages telling me things like the device is busy, etc..
Any solutions?

see man lsof

lsof
kill processes holding drive/mount point
umount

[Mihai Osian]

Post by Baho Utot

Post by Gary Dale
I'm connecting to a couple of shares on an XP Pro workstation - not a
sometimes the XP workstation gets rebooted while the shares are
connected. After that, I can't disconnect them and I can't reconnect
them. This creates a real problem because some programs (esp. under
wine) seem to read the full /mnt folder so they take forever.
I've tried umount //server/share --force as root but it doesn't work. I
get 4 or 5 error messages telling me things like the device is busy, etc..
Any solutions?

see man lsof
lsof
kill processes holding drive/mount point
umount

fuser -k path
is even better

[Gary Dale]

Post by Mihai Osian

Post by Baho Utot

Post by Gary Dale
I'm connecting to a couple of shares on an XP Pro workstation - not a
sometimes the XP workstation gets rebooted while the shares are
connected. After that, I can't disconnect them and I can't reconnect
them. This creates a real problem because some programs (esp. under
wine) seem to read the full /mnt folder so they take forever.
I've tried umount //server/share --force as root but it doesn't work.
I get 4 or 5 error messages telling me things like the device is
busy, etc..
Any solutions?

see man lsof
lsof
kill processes holding drive/mount point
umount

fuser -k path
is even better

Gives me an Input/Output error.

[Gary Dale]

Post by Baho Utot

Post by Gary Dale
I'm connecting to a couple of shares on an XP Pro workstation - not a
sometimes the XP workstation gets rebooted while the shares are
connected. After that, I can't disconnect them and I can't reconnect
them. This creates a real problem because some programs (esp. under
wine) seem to read the full /mnt folder so they take forever.
I've tried umount //server/share --force as root but it doesn't work. I
get 4 or 5 error messages telling me things like the device is busy, etc..
Any solutions?

see man lsof
lsof
kill processes holding drive/mount point
umount

gives me a "Warning: can't stat() smbfs file system" /mnt/mntpoint.