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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Mount & umount
From:       Diego Moya <turingt () gmail ! com>
Date:       2005-03-15 11:09:21
Message-ID: 11ee049405031503098e7a20b () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 18:19:10 -0500, Luke Sandell <spam@reasonsvoice.com> wrote:
> flavio wrote:
> 
> > hi all, this is my first post :-) My suggestion : is possible to know and
> > eventually kill processes that block the umount ?? I mean a window that
> > show me which processes use the device that I want umount.
> 
> This sounds like a great idea to me. I was having this problem today in
> fact. When it pops up the generic "device is busy" message box, there needs
> to be a "details" button that can drop down a list of processes that are
> accessing the device.
> 

And maybe a "Force umount"  button that finds and kills all such processes...
This way the user wouldnīt need to do that manually every time.

FYI finding those processes can be done from the console with the
"fuser" and "lsof" commands. I donīt know whether KDE has an interface
for that.
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