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

[timbrown at ichristian.com]

Thanks Tim; actually I think I had all windows closed down. but next time 
I'll confirm that. I'll save this so I can deal with it next time. 

Tim 

Tim Young writes: 

> 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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