HowTo: force umount a busy device in linux
Filed in System Administration, linux administration on Apr.07, 2009
Here’s how :
When you try to umount the regular way, if a device is busy you’ll get the following :
dev:/# umount /dev/sda1
umount2: Device or resource busy
umount: /boot: device is busy
This can be solver very easy by entering this :
dev:/# umount -l /dev/sda1
