Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!unido!pcsbst!torsten
From: torsten@pcsbst.UUCP (Torsten Homeyer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: umount : fs busy
Message-ID: <345@pcsbst.UUCP>
Date: 8 Sep 88 11:44:47 GMT
References: <27261@neabbs.UUCP>
Reply-To: sws4!torsten@pcsbst.UUCP (torsten)
Organization: PCS GmbH, Pfaelzer-Wald-Str. 36, 8000 Muenchen; West-Germany
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In article <27261@neabbs.UUCP> psloot@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?
>Obviously it can be found, 'cos umount knows about it. The system
>in question is SysV.

	Try "fuser".  It tell you the prozessids which work on that device.
	"fuser -k" will kill them.

		Torsten.
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