umount : fs busy

The Beach Bum jfh at rpp386.Dallas.TX.US
Sun Sep 11 00:07:39 AEST 1988


In article <792 at philmds.UUCP> hulsebos at philmds.UUCP (Rob Hulsebos) writes:
[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?
[
[You may want to try the 'fuser(1M)' utility, if it is available on your 
[system.

you may also want to check the c.s.unix and c.s.misc archives for
reimplementations of fuser.  you should be able to port fuser to your
system in a few hours if the correct one is not preset.
-- 
John F. Haugh II (jfh at rpp386.Dallas.TX.US)                   HASA, "S" Division

    "If the code and the comments disagree, then both are probably wrong."
                -- Norm Schryer



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