[CS-FSLUG] Things that bug me about Linux...

[Tim Young]

A process is still locking something on the mount.  From a command-line run the
following command to determine which process is locking the directory:

(assuming /dev/hdb3 was mounted on /mnt/hdb3)
# fuser /mnt/hdb3

Then you can do a:
# pstree -p | grep [number returned from command above]

For example, I might do:

     # fuser /mnt/hdb3
       5682
     # pstree -p | grep 5682

This should give you some information as to what is still using the mounted
partition.  Quite likely you just have a widow up that is looking at the files
or something like that.

    - Tim Young

timbrown at ichristian.com wrote:

> Here's  a question I've been meaning to ask for some time...
>
> Say I put a second drive in the computer to move data over. Let's assume
> it's  /dev/hdb3 for a name.
>
> I configure it through Yast partitioner, then create an icon on my desktop.
> It works fine. THEN when I'm done with it, I try to unmount it..."Only root
> can unmount /dev/hdb3" Ok, I understand that.
>
> But I go to terminal and type umount /dev/hdb3 AS SU and it returns "can't
> unmount, drive is busy". BUSY. BUSY??? How is it busy??? I'm not using it!!!
>
> So, I just power down, unplug the thing, boot up, get the inevitable console
> prompt, run yast, then pico fstab to remove the ref to the drive.
>
> Then I'm ok.
>
> What gives?
>
> Thanks,
>
> TIm
>
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