umount problems

Andy Green fedora at warmcat.com
Sun Jun 27 10:33:29 UTC 2004


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On Sunday 27 June 2004 10:51, Christopher K. Johnson wrote:

> >I'm using a usb disk which I currently can not unmount. I get "device
> > busy" messages although no process is using the disk (fuser doesn't show
> > anything).
> >
> >Anyway I can force an unmount ?
>
> The problem is probably fam.

Use lsof -n | grep your-mountpoint

to find out who has it.  Note that even having a terminal up with the cwd 
being the mountpoint is enough to stop an unmount.

- -Andy

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