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Unmounting Detachable devices (eSATA,USB storage) in Linux

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Problem

A detachable device like eSATA, USB drive can be abruptly removed (by simply pulling the plug). If there are open file handles on a partition, then this partitions won't unmount, i.e. the Linux command will fail, even AFTER the drive is physically detached. If the unmount fails, then on reattachmen…

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umount

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Fix for: Unmounting Detachable devices (eSATA,USB storage) in Linux

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You can write a bash script to scan all the file descriptors listed in (assume you have that) and list/kill the processes. is the n-th file descriptor for PID m presented as a symbolic link. does have readlink support, so you should be able to autom…

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