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Re: finding what is using a mount point



On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 10:06, Ken Gilmour wrote:
> Replying to the message sent by Micha Feigin  on Fri, 21 Nov 2003 
> 15:43:49 +0200, received at 16:06:15 on 21/11/2003. Micha Feigin wrote:
> >I mounted an image through a loop interface and now when I try to 
> unload
> >it I get a message:
> >umount: /home/micha/tmp: device is busy
> >I made sure no file is open from there but nothing helps.
> >How do I see what is using that mount point?
> 
> Maybe there is a swap file open of a file you were previously editing?

Or if you're running famd, it loves to keep mount points busy. If I had
a penny for every time I had to restart famd before unmounting... I'd
have almost a dollar by now! :)

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