On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, Namita Iyer wrote: > Hi Saifi, > > You can find out which process is using the file/filesystem using 'lsof' > or 'fuser'. > If you don't find any process using it, then try : > > 'unmount -f -l /data/d1' > > -f is for forced > -l as per the man pages is > "Lazy unmount. Detach the filesystem from the filesystem hierarchy now, > and cleanup all references to the filesystem as soon as > it is not busy anymore. (Requires kernel 2.4.11 or later.)" > > -f alone will not work. > > Not sure why it responds twice though. > > Hope this helps. > > Namita >
Thanks for the quick response. Yes, running the command helped unmount the partition. The '-l' option was really very helpful. However, still some process seems to be locking the device /dev/hdb as fdisk is not able to write the modified partition table information. Looks like i need to reboot the box :-( thanks Saifi.
