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Forcefully Unmount disk or partition – (umount /partition: device is busy)

LinuxBy DheryaAugust 2, 2017

Normally when we try to unmount a partition or a disk (Cd-rom or any other partitions) in Linux, sometimes we get an error umount: /xxx: device is busy. This is because other resources of the machine are still accessing the drive. You can use the fuser command to kill forcefully mounted partition or you can…

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