Re: finding what is using a mount point

[Andrew Schulman <andrex@deadspam.com>]

> 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?

fuser -m /home/micha/tmp

Sometimes this doesn't give you much useful information.  But you can
still kill whatever process is using it with

fuser -k /home/micha/tmp

After that you can dismount it.


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