umount says device busy despite fuser shows nothing

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> Yes, it's another umount prob.
> And no, I already tried fuser -c and fuser -u, but to no avail. :(
>
> OK, dirs cannot be mounted, but I'll just call it that way for now.
>
> My sys is Sol 2.6. on Sparc.
> The prob is that I have a dir that's stuck in the middle of being
> umounted. Umount says device busy, but nothing is mounted "below" that
> target. The entry in mnttab is still there, but the presumably still
> mounted dir is not accessible that way.

If you've already tried "fuser -ck /somefs; umount /somefs" then I think a reboot would be the only way to fix it.

James

umount says device busy despite fuser shows nothing

you probably have it shared.

Philip Brown

umount says device busy despite fuser shows nothing

Try lsof (depending on your OS, you may need to find a copy from somewhere) - this will show files in use within the filesystem as well

Adrian Bal

umount says device busy despite fuser shows nothing

Had a similar problem the other day - just dropped the box down a runlevel and it was fine.

yeah