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- From: david@dynamix.com (David L Jarvis)
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- Subject: Re: Problem with "umount" on SCO-ODT (UNIX v. 5.3.2)
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- Date: 5 Sep 92 12:16:32 GMT
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- > We have an 80486 machine running SCO-ODT (UNIX v.5.3.2). We have two
- > hard discs, one containing the root partition while the other (designated
- > as /dev/user) is mounted as /usr2. The problem is that we are unable to
- > unmount the latter. umount complains "/dev/user busy" although the
- > file system is not really busy. This behaviour is observed with
- > unfailing regularity.
- > As a result, we can never do a normal shutdown of the machine.
- > Can anyone help?
-
- This first thing to check (I know this sounds obvious, but it does happen)
- is that nobody is logged in and cd'd to a directory on that filesystem.
- The next (not so obvious) thing is to check for processes running which
- were created from programs on that filesystem. WordPerfect's wpexc does
- this and creates the situation you describe.
-
- Best Regards,
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