Re: finding what is using a mount point

[Tyler Morgan <tyler@xmission.com>]

On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 03:43:49PM +0200, 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?
>

You can try:

lsof | egrep /home/micha/tmp

To try and figure out what exactly is using that directory.

Or if it is a network share sometimes you have to use 'umount -f' to force
it.

-- Tyler