umount : fs busy
Dave Turner
dmt at ptsfa.PacBell.COM
Fri Sep 9 02:52:47 AEST 1988
In article <1094 at cbnews.ATT.COM> lvc at cbnews.ATT.COM (Lawrence V. Cipriani) 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".
>>
>
>See /etc/fuser(1M) in the UNIX(tm) Administrators Reference Manual.
>fuser can tell you what process id's are using a file or file system.
On System V, accounting will keep /usr busy and fuser won't say why.
If it's /usr that is busy, try:
/usr/lib/acct/shutacct
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Dave Turner 415/542-1299 {att,bellcore,sun,ames,pyramid}!pacbell!dmt
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