Re: umount partition is busy

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

Luis R Finotti wrote:
> 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
>
> You can try "lsof" to find what is keeping the device busy:
>
> debian[~]% umount dvd
> umount: /media/cdrom0: device is busy
> umount: /media/cdrom0: device is busy
>
> debian[~]% lsof /media/cdrom0
> lsof: WARNING: can't stat() ext3 file system /dev/.static/dev
>       Output information may be incomplete.
> COMMAND  PID    USER   FD   TYPE DEVICE      SIZE NODE NAME
> bash     455 finotti  cwd    DIR   22,0      2048 1408 /media/cdrom0
> mplayer 1010 finotti  cwd    DIR   22,0      2048 1408 /media/cdrom0
> mplayer 1010 finotti    4r   REG   22,0 461630064 1416 
> /media/cdrom0/Brecker Brothers Band - Northsea Jazz Festival 1992.mpg
>
> You can then try to kill the process or deal with it:
>
> debian[~]% ps aux | grep mplayer
> finotti   1010  9.1  1.4 37960 14604 pts/5   S+   21:10   1:12 mplayer 
> Brecker Brothers Band - Northsea Jazz Festival 1992.mpg
>
>
> HTH,
>
> Luis
>
> P.S.: watching the Brecker Brothers is a good reason to keep a device 
> busy. ;-)

Bingo Luis!

lsof /hda14

lsof: WARNING: can't stat() ext2 file system /dev/.static/dev
      Output information may be incomplete.
COMMAND    PID USER  FD   TYPE DEVICE   SIZE   NODE NAME
thunderbi 7382 hugo mem    REG   3,14 249736 639588 
/hda14/backup.files/fromhd/usr/local/thunderbird/libnssckbi.so
seamonkey 8363 hugo mem    REG   3,14 290582 721775 
/hda14/backup.files/fromhd/usr/local/seamonkey1.0/libnssckbi.so

Now to Brecker Brothers!

Thanks!

H