Re: umount partition is busy

On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 16:22 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Hi,

I do:

umount /hda14

and get:

umount: /hda14: device is busy
umount: /hda14: device is busy


Is there a way of finding out *why* it is busy? Obviously it is linked
to someplace, but where?

Thanks!

H


Try mount with no arguments. It lists mounted mount points.
Then try lsof | grep the name of the mount point. This will list the
open files with the mount point in their name and the processes that has
them open.



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