umount /home

[Scott Frye_1]

Do I need to be in single user mode to umount /home?

[Alexander Chuzhoy · Accepted solution]

you can also umount /home in init 5


of course it would be better to check that no one works on his files at the time.


if umount doesn't work
try umount -l /home

[Steven E. Protter]

No.

Depending on you setup you should be able to use fuser -cuk /home to kill any /home processes. See the man page for Linuxisms there.

Be careful. If you have any applications or the session you use to intiate the command is in /home you'll kill your own session.

fuser -cu /home will give you pid's to look at.

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