umount : fs busy

Rob Hulsebos hulsebos at philmds.UUCP
Tue Sep 6 23:30:20 AEST 1988


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.

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