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From: dmt@ptsfa.PacBell.COM (Dave Turner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: umount : fs busy
Message-ID: <4486@ptsfa.PacBell.COM>
Date: 8 Sep 88 16:52:47 GMT
References: <27261@neabbs.UUCP> <1094@cbnews.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: dmt@ptsfa.PacBell.COM (Dave Turner)
Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA
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In article <1094@cbnews.ATT.COM> lvc@cbnews.ATT.COM (Lawrence V. Cipriani) writes:
>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".
>> 
>
>See /etc/fuser(1M) in the UNIX(tm) Administrators Reference Manual.
>fuser can tell you what process id's are using a file or file system.

On System V, accounting will keep /usr busy and fuser won't say why.
If it's /usr that is busy, try:

	/usr/lib/acct/shutacct






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