umount: device is busy

Michael ODonnell michael.odonnell at comcast.net
Thu Jan 19 13:42:01 EST 2006


I believe it's sometimes possible (when lsof and friends can't
figure out who's got a particular device or mount point busy)
to find the culprit with an approach something like this:

  find /proc/[0-9]* | xargs -l20 ls -aFdl 2>/dev/null | grep itemOfInterest

 



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