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To: Kirk McKusick <mckusick@mckusick.com>
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Subject: Re: umount -f implementation 
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Kirk McKusick wrote:
> forced unmounts. The gentle force (-f) and the brute force (-F)
> unmount. 

-F Would also be nice for devd.conf detach, for when people
forget & pull a USB stick without unmounting first.
Better a corrupt stick than a crashed OS.

Cheers,
Julian
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