On 09/06/2015 09:57 AM, François Patte wrote:
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Le 06/09/2015 15:55, Robert Moskowitz a écrit :
> I was copying some files to a newly set up USB HD, and then did
> some umounts when done. Well they are still running, and
>
> kill pid
>
> is not killing them and they are taking up most of my cpu.
>
> I have never seen 'kill' fail.
>
> What can I do other than reboot?
kill -9
Do you mean:
kill -9 2200
where 2200 is the pid number I want dead?