Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 00:46:58 -0400 From: drifter@stratos.net To: jack <jack@germanium.xtalwind.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: device busy... Message-ID: <199805050446.AAA00818@stratos.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 04 May 1998 00:42:56 EDT." <Pine.BSF.3.96.980504004025.18170A-100000@germanium.xtalwind.net>
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[ reposted to questions -- sorry about the post to the inappropriate mailing list ] On MON 04 MAY 1998, 00:42:56 EDT, jack@germanium.xtalwind.net wrote: >On Mon, 4 May 1998 drifter@stratos.net wrote: > >> Just as a note, I tried umount /usr a couple days ago when I was >> backing up some file systems. I was in single user mode. It would not >> allow me to, saying the device was busy. So I remounted /usr, and did >> an lsof, and found no files using /usr except lsof and more, which the >> output >> of lsof was being piped to. >> This happened to me one other time. Does anyone have any ideas? > >What was your working directory at the time? Couple of people have asked me this... But unfortunately I do remember that I was in /root, not a /usr directory. So I am still left mystified. -drifter@stratos.NOSPAMISGOODSPAM.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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