On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Jacob D Sheck wrote:

> I have a drive that I mount for just storage.  When I a want to do a
> backup, I just "mount /dev/hdd /storage", I use my favorite backup
> software, and then I am done.  The HDD drive is not the most reliable
> drive in the world and at times I start getting IO failures from it,
> (usless hardware company name here) drives me nuts.  My load average goes
> through the roof after a while.  How do I stop all the processes that have
> handles to the drive, so that I can umount it?  I try to do a umount, but
> it responds that the drive is in use.  The only app that I have that would
> touch it is my backup, and I konw it is done.

To find out which processes are using this drive, try 
lsof /dev/hdd
or
lsof /storage

Werner




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