At 12:44 AM 31/03/97 +0200, joost witteveen wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I upgrade a lot of packages, don't know exactly which ones though, and now >> shutdown -h now and umount will not unmount /usr(aka /dev/hdb3). It gives me >> same error: >> umount: /dev/hdb3: device is busy >> >> Does anyone have any idea as to what is causing this? > >The other asnwers in this list are all very usefull, but sometimes >I find that whatever I do, I cannot unmount for example /usr. >In such cases, it's best to do > > mount -o remount,ro /usr > >i.e. remount it read-only, so that all data is written do the partition, >and you can now safely switch off the computer (execute "halt"). >(assuming all other partions are unmonuted properly).
Or better still, find what process is using /dev/hdb3 by doing this: fuser -uvm <mounted system> What I mean by mounted system is /var or /home and the like. This will print out process ID and the USER who's controlling it (and what the process is - ie: named). Regards -- Karl Ferguson Tower Networking Pty Ltd Tel: +61-9-456-0000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] t/a STAR Online Services Fax: +61-9-455-2776 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
