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    Note that fuser -k is extremely risky, as you'll be doing it as root and if you're not very sure of which processes will be killed off you can do truly spectacular damage with a careless command... Commented Jan 4, 2014 at 23:08
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    @Shadur well, hopefully you've already run it without the -k option, so you'll know which processes you're going to kill. But I'll add in a warning. Commented Jan 5, 2014 at 6:48
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    fuser -vm showed "kernel mount". had to do systemctl stop opt.mount instead of manual umount. Commented Aug 8, 2015 at 18:36
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    For some reason umount -f doesn't work for me but running umount -l works perfectly. Commented Oct 27, 2015 at 9:44
  • Thanks for the note about umount -fand NFS. My issue was NFS related where my dev machines changed IPs and I could not get the share removed. Commented Oct 4, 2016 at 16:41