I have got a solution now that so far has no apparent bad effects. I
used "umount -l" to unmount a busy usb mass storage device mounted on
a certain folder. I unmount it while playing a video directly from the
usb device, and no fatal effect has been observed. I hope this can
also help anyone. =)

On Sep 23, 10:06 am, archieval <archie.brio...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> Unmounting a busy partition has been quite a problem for me, my
> busybox package v1.16.0 have no lsof, and fuser does not really help
> in determining if a file in the mount point is being used, or opened.
> Does anyone have a workaround for this? I tried to insert an lsof
> binary to the system but everytime I execute it, it returns error that
> it is not found. Is there a proc file or something like that wherein I
> can find whether the mount point is opened and what process is using
> it?
>
> Regards,
> archieval

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