Hi, ...guess this is a Linux-Filesystem specific question... Why not ask also on "linux-fsdevel" <[email protected]>?
Regards, - Sedat - On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 6:45 AM, Harald Becker <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > as here are several experts, and not so much traffic at the moment, I > throw in an off-topic question (which may still be of interest for > other system managers): > > In a shell script I like to check if a mounted filesystem is still in > use by any other process in the system. If there is no more process > using the filesystem some cleanup actions has to be done and > afterwards the filesystem is unmounted. As the filesystem is only a > temporary filesystem it's contents is lost after the unmount, so the > cleanup action has to be done before the umount. And that cleanup shall > only be done when there are no more processes actively using the > filesystem. As I do not know which processes got forked off and are > still using the filesystem I'm not able to check for existence of > specific processes. So I'm in need of a test to determine if there is > any process using a filesystem (that is the filesystem is busy). > > What do you think is the best way to achieve this? > > Many thx for suggestions > Harald > _______________________________________________ > busybox mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
