On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 12:56:08AM -0500, Eben King wrote:
> 'Splain this, please.
>
> eben@pc:~$ sudo umount /misc/scratch/
> umount: /misc/scratch: device is busy
> umount: /misc/scratch: device is busy
>
> eben@pc:~$ lsof -n | grep scratch
> eben@pc:~$
>
> Why's it busy, then? This might explain why automount never lets it
> umount.
> In particular:
>
> eben@pc:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/autofs stop
> Stopping automounter:
> Couldn't stop automount for /misc done.
>
Looks like it's /misc, not /misc/scratch that's actually busy, since
autofs reports /misc as the thing it couldn't umount. My problem with
things like this is that I always have mc opened on the directory I want
to umount. I don't know if lsof shows it when I do that, but that's what
always snags me. In any case, you might try lsof -n | grep misc and see
what it says.
Paul
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