Hi David, The fuser command will kill processes that have a device locked. Let's say you want to unmount a filesystem called /test on /dev/hda2. You would issue the fuser -ku /test command and all processes on that filesystem are killed. You can then unmount it. You can also issue the fuser -u command and it will list those processes. One thing to note: if you are in /test or one of its subdirs you will not be able to unmount it. mike David Brett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@redhat.com on 11/24/2000 02:37:32 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: basic question: busy devicess In the process of testing mounting and umounting. I ended up with a partition, which is busy. At least the system thinks it is busy. This leads to two questions. How do you find out what is using a device? Second how do you force a device to umount (or become free)? david _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
