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Re: can't umount /usr(/dev/hdb3)



On Sat, 29 Mar 1997, David Puryear wrote:

> I upgrade a lot of packages, don't know exactly which ones though,  and now
> shutdown -h now and umount will not unmount /usr(aka /dev/hdb3). It gives me
> same error:
>         umount: /dev/hdb3: device is busy 
> 
> Does anyone have any idea as to what is causing this?

If you are in any of the mounted directories (including the top, e.g. 
/mnt), then umount would give this message and refues to unmount the 
device.

Syrus.

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Syrus Nemat-Nasser <syrus@ucsd.edu>    UCSD Physics Dept.



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