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Re: Umount problem!!



on Wed, May 09, 2001 at 10:05:56AM +0200, Krzysztof Mazurczyk (kmazurczyk@wskiz.poznan.pl) wrote:
> From: "Angel Parra" <aparra@idecnet.com>
> To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2001 11:54 PM
> Subject: Umount problem!!
> 
> 
> > I think that it can be a sily question .. but I can't remember howto do
> > it
> >
> > If somebody has left a process with an open file on a mount filesystem
> > or a shell with the pwd on it... how can I (root) discover the process
> > to get the filesystem unmounted without the
> >
> > "umount: /filesystem: device is busy"

> Unmounting is also impossible if your current directory is somewhere
> in mounted file system.

...or more generally, if any active procsess has a current working
directory beneath the filesystem's mountpoint.

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