[ale] Dead process question

[Asif]

Try fuser.  It has a -k option to kill processes using that mount.  Look up the
man pages for details.


Ben Conrad wrote:

> Folks,
>
> I spent a bit of time trying to unmount a smbmount that kept reporting I/O
> errors.  Being stubborn I did not want to reboot the machine just to clear
> that up.  Every time I tried to umount -f /mnt/jukebox or smbumount
> /mnt/jukebox I got an error.
>
> So I looked around for some old processes that were not in use anymore.
> These processes existed because of my NT PC crashing and the ssh connection
> getting closed.  I killed a bunch of processes owned by my username and root
> that were too old to be still in use.  After that I could umount
> /mnt/jukebox.
>
> My question is this:  How can I determine if a user has been disconnected
> but still has processes running that may affect other processes like umount?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ben.
>
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