Killing inotify necessary to unmount external HDD

[Ataraxy (Tom Hale)]

Thanks @wweich.

I’ve raised a related question:

Rescan single folder / set syncthing-inotify -delay-scan to infinity?

I’ve been trying to understand the behaviour of inotify in relation to blocking unmounting a filesystem. I need to kill inotify to unmount my external HDD. This is a more general question: Is there a way of telling syncthing directly to only rescan a particular folder? Is there a way of telling inotify to tell syncthing to trigger a scan on a folder? I may be seeing it incorrectly, but ideally, wouldn’t one of these methods exist so we can: syncthing-inotify -delay-scan 999999999999 BTW, w…