First of all, I checked both lsof's and fstat's output: NOTHING seems to have a file open in the /usr partition. Very strange. Of course, I've tried the copies of both tools in /root/bin so they don't cause any access on /usr theirselves.
On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:08:58 -0700, Tim Judd <taj...@gmail.com> wrote: > Most commonly for me is because my $PWD (or CWD) is in the filesystem i > intend to umount I've checked this: In SUM, $CWD was /, and root's $HOME is /root on the / partition. Users' home directories are on /home which is separated from /usr (and can be unmounted without problems). At no time, a $CWD was on /usr partition. > 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) Which would be /root in case of SUM. As I said, very strange... -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"