Re: [SLUG] "mount" weirdness

From: blee2@tampabay.rr.com
Date: Tue Feb 24 2009 - 10:34:45 EST


Thus Eben King hast written on Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 12:56:08AM -0500, and, according to prophecy, it shall come to pass that:
> eben@pc:~$ sudo umount /misc/scratch/
> umount: /misc/scratch: device is busy
> umount: /misc/scratch: device is busy

For what it's worth, generally when I run into this problem, it's because
I'm running something like `vi /etc/hosts` that was started in
/misc/scratch/foo. So the file being edited is unrelated, but there's
something that has it's current working directory inside the mountpoint.
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