Polytropon wrote:
I'd like to ask how to determine which process (or program) keeps a partition
in state "busy" so that umount will refuse to unmount this partition. I found
this when going into SUM for checking and maintenance, so I think it would be
good to check which program still accesses files on a specific partition
allthough it should already be terminated due to the different "stop" mechanisms
run for the services in /etc/rc.d and /usr/local/etc/rc.d respectively, which
is performed by init, if I understood this correctly.
Example:
% shutdown now
... going SUM, starting sh ...
# umount /home
# umount /tmp
# umount /var
# umount /usr
umount: unmount of /usr failed: Device busy
# umount -f /usr
# mount -o ro /
# fsck ... blah blah ...
It would be good to be able to check why the partition is in state "busy" and
possible terminate / kill processes that cause this. Using the force (-f) seems
to be unneccessarily unfriendly. =^_^=
Thanks for suggestions!
Most commonly for me is because my $PWD (or CWD) is in the filesystem i
intend to umount
so as a habit now, i move myself to the root partition (when logged in
as root) via the following, and assuming I want to umount /usr
# umount /usr
umount: unmount of /usr failed: Device busy
# cd
# umount /usr
cd, with no arguments, move you to ~ (aka $HOME)
--Tim
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