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Subject: Determining process preventing umount of busy partition
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Polytropon writes:

>  I'd like to ask how to determine which process (or program) keeps
>  a partition in state "busy" so that umount will refuse to unmount
>  this partition. 

	The traditional tool for doing this is sysutils/lsof.
	(Please let me know if it compiles.)


				Robert Huff