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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