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From: brad@harper.UUCP (Brad Cleghorn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Cannot umount /usr filesystem (ALWAYS "busy")
Message-ID: <248@harper.UUCP>
Date: 21 Jun 90 19:36:46 GMT
References: <267@jorel.UUCP> <DRICH.90Jun11105134@junkbox.dialogic.com>
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Organization: William Rainey Harper College - Palatine, Il
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drich@dialogic.com (Dan Rich) writes:

>I have run into this problem myself, and have gone through all of the
>obvious solutions.  I have checked for processes with both fuser, and
>ps.  But, I did have an idea late last night that I haven't had the
>time to check on yet.

I have found that if my home dir is in /usr, and I'm logged in, (no
matter *what* my pwd is) /usr won't umount -- Even if I'm su.  I had
to log in on the console port as root.