did u check lsof? it would show if something is using that partition..i just checked one of my machines and saw that one partition was in use, just because i started a program on which forked to the backgroupd(vpnd) it is not"using" the partition at all but lsof shows it as having the mount point as an open file
nate On Thu, 20 Jan 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hawk > hawk >I'm using the ncpfs to use space on networked novell drives. It works hawk >most of the time with most applications, but it has a tendency to hawk >halfway dismount itself on errors. Some I can reproduce, but they all hawk >involve manually dismounting then remounting. hawk > hawk >This time, though, it wrongly concluded that the file system was still hawk >in use, and refused to dismount. I could find no way to remount other hawk >than to reboot! I searched for lock files in the usual places in /var, hawk >but found nothing. hawk > hawk >Is there some other way to deal with this situation? hawk >-- hawk > hawk > hawk > hawk >-- hawk >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null hawk > ----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 10:11am up 153 days, 22:15, 1 user, load average: 1.64, 1.53, 1.56
