On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 02:23:48PM +0700, Surachai Locharoen wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 05:53:06PM -0700, charles norwood wrote: > > > >>On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 16:22 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > >> > >>>Hi, > >>> > >>>I do: > >>> > >>>umount /hda14 > >>> > >>>and get: > >>> > >>>umount: /hda14: device is busy > >>>umount: /hda14: device is busy > >>> > >>> > >>>Is there a way of finding out *why* it is busy? Obviously it is linked > >>>to someplace, but where?
well in this case, its because my current working directory was /home... that's the big 'duh' moment. others in this thread have mentioned use of lsof | grep <device in question> which is th eonly solution I know. A > >>> > >>>Thanks! > >>> > >>>H > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>Try mount with no arguments. It lists mounted mount points. > >> > > > > > >I am embarrassed to admit that many times my cli is sitting in the very > >directory I'm trying to umount. > > > >for example. > > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ mount > >[...] > >/dev/hdb7 on /home type ext3 (rw) > >[...] > >[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo umount /home > >Password: > >umount: /home: device is busy > >umount: /home: device is busy > > > > > >Its happened more than once. :) > > > >A > > > > > >>-- > >>To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > >> > > > > > > > To view process which use /home, Use fuser command > > $> fuser /home > > if you want to kill process use > $> fuser -k /home > > and then you can umount fine. > begin:vcard > fn:Surachai Locharoen > n:Locharoen;Surachai > email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > note:If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. > (Albert Einstein) > x-mozilla-html:TRUE > version:2.1 > end:vcard >
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