Stale mount on disconnected device: how to delete it?

[Romain Tartière]

On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 08:58:27AM -0600, Sergey Babkin wrote :
> Would not umount -f do the trick?

I tried it without particular care one time on a failing device and
experienced an instant system reboot (was it caused by the faulty disk
or by a limitation in the implementation of the system (FreeBSD 5.x at
that time), I can't be sure). Since then, I have never tried to force
the unmounting of any device in favor of rebooting the system.

In fact, crawling the PR database already reports problems about forcing
unmounting of devices [kern/77026, kern/102250, usb/46176, ...].

So I prefer to be sure that everything is safe (not mounted read/write)
before trying anything that can lead to data loss.

Regards,
Romain

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