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Old 07-26-2002
umount, device busy, but..
I'm trying to unmount a file system, but umount says the device is busy. A fuser -c /myfs tells me that nothing on this fs is in use. Any idea?



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Old 07-26-2002
Tools
try

umount -f
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Old 07-26-2002
Thx, but -f isn't an available option for umount.
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Old 07-26-2002
PHP
Please be sure that fuser is getting executed from /usr/bin

have u checked path etc...


Ganti
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Old 07-26-2002
It's beeing executed in /usr/sbin.
Starting it with the full path returns the same result.
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Old 07-26-2002
Rather than "fuser -c /mysys", Try the block special file without the -c. Something like:
fuser /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s6

Also try lsof if you have it. I have better luck with lsof than I do with fuser.
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Old 07-26-2002
what os are you using?

try

fuser -ck

the k option will kill any process or users using up the filesystem

then you could umount

Do a man umount for available options

on solaris 8 umount -f will force a filesystem to unmount.
 
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