umount -f implementation

Julian H. Stacey jhs at berklix.com
Wed Jul 1 01:09:59 UTC 2009


Kirk McKusick wrote:
> forced unmounts. The gentle force (-f) and the brute force (-F)
> unmount. 

-F Would also be nice for devd.conf detach, for when people
forget & pull a USB stick without unmounting first.
Better a corrupt stick than a crashed OS.

Cheers,
Julian
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