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- From: repass@futserv.austin.ibm.com (James Repass)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
- Subject: Re: umount, <defunct>
- Keywords: umount <defunct>
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.193957.19565@awdprime.austin.ibm.com>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 19:39:57 GMT
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- Reply-To: repass@futserv.austin.ibm.com (James Repass)
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- > From: hhw0@harvey.gte.com (Hansel Wan)
- > Subject: umount, <defunct>
- > Keywords: umount <defunct>
- > Date: 18 Aug 92 22:21:44 GMT
- >
- >
- > 1. How do you get rid of <defunct> processes?
- > I tried the usual kill and kill -9 but they refuse to die.
- > They seem to stick around until the next cold boot.
- >
- > 2. How do you check who/what is keeping a harddisk device busy?
- > When I tried to unmount a harddisk (/home), it gave me a message
- > "DEVICE BUSY", even though I was the only one logged in (as root)
- > and other login is disabled and my current working directory is
- > not in it. How do I check what application or daemon is keeping
- > it in a busy state?
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- Check out the fuser command.
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- >
- > Thanks in advance for anyone who response.
- >
- > - Hansel (hhw0@gte.com)
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