umount : fs busy

[Torsten Homeyer]

In article <27261 at neabbs.UUCP> psloot at neabbs.UUCP (PAUL SLOOTMAN) writes:
>When I want to umount a filesystem, I sometimes (entirely correctly)
>get the message "umount failed: file system busy".
> 
>My uestion is: how can I find out who or what is keeping it busy?
>Obviously it can be found, 'cos umount knows about it. The system
>in question is SysV.

	Try "fuser".  It tell you the prozessids which work on that device.
	"fuser -k" will kill them.

		Torsten.
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