Can't kill a umount

[François Patte]

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Le 06/09/2015 15:55, Robert Moskowitz a écrit :
> I was copying some files to a newly set up USB HD, and then did
> some umounts when done.  Well they are still running, and
> 
> kill pid
> 
> is not killing them and they are taking up most of my cpu.
> 
> I have never seen 'kill' fail.
> 
> What can I do other than reboot?

kill -9

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