On Monday 02 April 2001 13:48, you wrote:
> A transfer to my usb zip drive hung up. I'm trying to umount it but
> get the "device busy" message. So, I 'lsof |grep zip' and get a list
> of processes that are using it and try to kill the processes with a -9
> switch.
>
> But they won't die! How do I really kill them, dead, really dead? :-)
>
> Steve
Well, sometimes the processes are in use by other users
be root
try
fuser -k -9 /mnt/zip
then try to kill the processes
Or -- you can always kill them (and everything else except those processes
that support the instruction) with
killall5
Of course the next move is likely the reset switch if you do that.
Civileme
