RE: cdrive lock

[Kalum / Grendel <kalum delrom ro>]

On Mon, 30 Sep 2002,  Mark Knecht commented thusly,

> The other thing I think some new users forget (and I still forget sometimes)
> is that you cannot unmount a CD if you still have a window open that is
> shelled into some directory on the CD. That's another way you can be 'using'
> the CD.
>
> You have to close all of those, or CD them back to your home directory,
> before issuing the umount or the system won't let go.


ON this note, I was reading a lod unix book and they mentioned that root
could unmount a system even if it is in use with the -k switch, but under
linux this doenst work.

What I mean is that is there a option to do this underlinux, say you are
the admin and you want to unmount a hard drive to do maintainenece etc,
and it is busy, ie some user has it opened, so now say you cant contac
this guy etc, is it possible to ask linux to unmount it anyway?


Best Wishes,
Grendel


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