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Re: determining what makes a filesystem busy



On Mon, 29 May 2000, Dan Christensen <jdc@jhu.edu> wrote:
> 
> Is there an easy way to determine what makes a filesystem busy, e.g.
> what prevents me from remounting /usr readonly after an upgrade?
> Usually some file that was erased is being held open by a process,
> but I don't know an easy way to determine which file or process.
> "lsof | grep usr" is a start, but provides too long a list.  Is
> there an easier way?

man fuser

ChriS



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