Re: umount partition is busy
On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 16:22 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I do:
>
> umount /hda14
>
> and get:
>
> umount: /hda14: device is busy
> umount: /hda14: device is busy
>
>
> Is there a way of finding out *why* it is busy? Obviously it is linked
> to someplace, but where?
>
> Thanks!
>
> H
>
>
Try mount with no arguments. It lists mounted mount points.
Then try lsof | grep the name of the mount point. This will list the
open files with the mount point in their name and the processes that has
them open.
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