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

To: "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <bss@iguanasuicide.net>
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: How to check if device is busy without unmounting?
From: Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 09:25:22 +0300
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On 17 May 2010 02:46, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <bss@iguanasuicide.net> 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.

Thanks, Boyd!


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