basic question: busy devicess

2000-11-24 Thread David Brett
In the process of testing mounting and umounting. I ended up with a partition, which is busy. At least the system thinks it is busy. This leads to two questions. How do you find out what is using a device? Second how do you force a device to umount (or become free)? david

Re: basic question: busy devicess

2000-11-24 Thread Michael Butler/CanEast/IBM
PROTECTED] cc: Subject: basic question: busy devicess In the process of testing mounting and umounting. I ended up with a partition, which is busy. At least the system thinks it is busy. This leads to two questions. How do you find out what is using a device? Second how do you force a device

Re: basic question: busy devicess

2000-11-24 Thread Mike Burger
I found that I couldn't unmount certain filesystems/devices because I had them NFS exported...temporarily shutting off nfs, I was able to unmount the filesystem with no problem, and could remount it when I needed it. On Fri, 24 Nov 2000, David Brett wrote: In the process of testing mounting