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Old 06-28-2006, 01:10 AM
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Default Unable to unmount a filesystem because of zombie processes

Hello,

I need to unmount a filesystem with is frozen by zombie processes, because of that I am getting error filesystem busy or like that

How do I kill zombie process or how do I unmount the file system?
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Use any one of the following command:

fuser -km /mount-point
umount -l /mount-point

See following url for more info
How do I forcefully unmount a disk partition? http://www.cyberciti.biz/nixcraft/vi...mount-disk.php
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thanks my problem is solved with command umount -l
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