On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, David A. Mann wrote:

> But I couldn't unmount the cd from my server to eject it.  Sh*t.  umount 
> complains about the drive being busy (ie a process is using it).  
> umount -f also complains.

[...]

> Does anyone have any ideas that don't involve rebooting the machine?

'fuser -muv <dir>' will tell you who is using what.
Ocasionally you may get a hang in the kernel, if so then
you are out of luck (i.e. need rebooting)

Cheers,
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Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Computer Systems Manager
University of Canterbury, Physics & Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

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