Can't kill a umount

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 09/06/2015 01:40 PM, François Patte wrote:
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> Le 06/09/2015 16:05, Robert Moskowitz a écrit :
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>> On 09/06/2015 09:57 AM, François Patte wrote:
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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
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>>>> kill pid
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>>>> 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
>> Do you mean:
>>
>> kill -9 2200
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>> where 2200 is the pid number I want dead?
> exactly! This will the process without any regard to other linked
> processes

Thanks I will know this  for next time.