umount problems

[Christopher K. Johnson]

Marcel Janssen wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I'm using a usb disk which I currently can not unmount. I get "device busy" 
>messages although no process is using the disk (fuser doesn't show anything).
>
>Anyway I can force an unmount ?
>
>  
>
The problem is probably fam.
Try:
killall -HUP fam
Then unmount.

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