[nylug-talk] Is it mounted or not ??

[vin]

On Monday 02 October 2006 04:36 pm, Ajai Khattri wrote:
> matt black wrote:
> >   What I meant to imply by "can see no obvious reason it would be
> > busy" is that no, no one else is on any tty and aside from normal
> > system processes, this is the only command being issued on the only
> > tty being used.
>
> It could be busy because a process has a file/directory open on that fs.
> You can use fuser or lsof to see what process has a a file open under
> that mount point.

In case you set the problem aside rather than solved it, 

fuser -m  /dev/hdd may show what process is keeping the device "busy"

A previously hung tty sitting on a directory on the device is enough to tie it 
up.  Sometimes you have to kill the parent tty, or parent process to release 
the process from the downstream tty that was killed but didn't release the 
process holding open the device.  Try killing all the tty including the one 
you're using, then bring one back up and see if that solves the problem.


-- vin

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right? Right? (This hint brought to you by the letters 'D', 'U', 'M', and
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