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Article #749Re: how to see which files are open?
From: Fleming Kraglund
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 1990 23:45
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 1990 23:45
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C.J.Parkin-Lilley@fulcrum.bt.co.uk (Chris Parkin Lilley [cs12]) writes:
>In article <3537@zorba.Tynan.COM> uunet!unix.sri.com!cole (Susan Cole) writes:
>>I found myself wanting to umount a filesystem which as far as I could
>>see no one was in (nor in another directory under it) but nevertheless,
>>every time I tried to umount it I got "Device busy". This was
>Does your system have 'fuser'. If so, you should be able to do something like
> fuser -u /dev/dsk/whatever (a block special file)
>This should give you the pids of the processes which have a partition open,
>and
> fuser -k /dev/dsk/whatever
>should try and kill them off.
Please note that if you are using process accounting (assuming sysV 3.x)
then the kernel has an open file on /usr, (yes the kernel, it's the inode
on which to write the account records) and you must do a
/usr/lib/acct/shutacct.
Hope this helps too.
--
fk@rci.dk (I hate .sig files)
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