Noob boo boo with samba

[Xian]

On Friday 21 January 2005 09:09, Tom Huppi wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Ronny Hippler wrote:
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> > On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 23:59:12 -0500 (EST), Tom Huppi wrote:
> > >> Well here is a noob sharing his experience. Don't mount a windows
> > >> share in your home dir! Now how do I unmount this shy of rebooting? it
> > >> just keeps giving a device is busy error even from root account. Doh!
> > >
> > >Try 'lsof' to see what processes are using what files.  I've not
> > >tried it on a windows share, so YMMV, but it's the best tool
> >
> > Well I wound up rebooting because I am impatient :) I did install lsof
> > for the next time I do something stupid. thanks for the info.
>
> I doubt that what you did is stupid.  You just have to do it
> right, and I suspect that you did else it probably wouldn't have
> worked.
>
> The problem you seem to have run across is pretty common.  So is
> the solution you choose...you are not the first person to have
> done so...this is one of the few things I actually know for a
> fact to be true :)
>
> Thanks,
>
>  - Tom
>

You can use the -f option on umount, but I wouldn'trecomend this ulless you 
are sure your not going to do dammage.
I mounted a USB Pen drive over my home dir and everything fell over. It ended 
in a kernel panic when I pulled the drive out still mounted. Oops.

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