[PLUG] umount in-use fs

Eric Wilhelm scratchcomputing at gmail.com
Sun May 7 20:43:11 UTC 2006


# from Jason R. Martin
# on Sunday 07 May 2006 01:23 pm:

>The most common reason (for me) that I get the device busy errors is
>because I have a shell window open where the current working directory
>is inside the mounted device filesystem.

Seems like something similar came up recently related to moving or 
removing a directory while it is in use.  This of course doesn't bother 
a lot of running programs, but can also lead to interesting behavior.

If you have a /proc/, (e.g. most modern *nix), this script might be of 
use:

  http://scratchcomputing.com/svn/misc/trunk/code/perl/bin/cwd_proc

--Eric
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