Can't kill a umount

[François Patte]

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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
>>> 
>>> 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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> Do you mean:
> 
> kill -9 2200
> 
> where 2200 is the pid number I want dead?

exactly! This will the process without any regard to other linked
processes

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François Patte
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