Re: How to check if device is busy without unmounting?

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

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On 05/16/2010 08:00 PM, Ardison Nicolas wrote:
> Hi, i'm new in this list, i wrote a post about how to do this [1] . With
> Fuse as Sthepen said.
>
> [1] http://www.ardsoluciones.com.ar/blog/?p=436&preview=true
>
>
> On 16 May 2010 21:12, Ron Johnson<ron.l.johnson@cox.net>  wrote:
>
> > On 05/16/2010 06:46 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> >
> > > On Sunday 16 May 2010 18:05:01 Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > >
> > > > How can one check if a device can be safely unmounted at the moment.
> > > > Sometimes umount fails as the device is busy. Is there a way to check
> > > > if the device is busy, without unmounting? The umount manpage does not
> > > > discuss this situation.
> > >
> > > (fuser -mv /$mnt_point) is relatively standard.
> > >
> > > lsof is quite a bit more powerful and complete, and available for Debian.
> >
> > Neither of those commands "see" NFS exports.

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