Re: umount after bad blocks...

[Patrick Welche <prlw1%cam.ac.uk@localhost>]

On Sun, May 20, 2018 at 10:36:20PM -0700, George Georgalis wrote:
> Is there a graceful way to abort and umount the broken device? Don't care
> about the data, have tried SIGKILL the processes etc  but at this point it
> looks like I have to powercycle to release the umass device.

Does umount -f help?

     -f      The file system is forcibly unmounted.  Active special devices
             continue to work, but all other files return errors if further
             accesses are attempted.  The root file system cannot be forcibly
             unmounted.


Cheers,

Patrick