From: Quinn, Bryan (Bryan.Quinn@CooperTools.com)
Date: Thu Aug 08 2002 - 10:13:37 EDT
Thanks to everyone who replied and there were a lot of them. The reply that
did the trick for me was from Steve Buchan, thanks a million! Below is his
reply and below that is my original post!
> Bryan,
>
> The fuser command can sort this out:
>
> fuser -ku /dev/vgx/lvolx
>
> If this does not solve the problem, I would suggest booting into single
> user
> mode, and trying again. You may have to stop certain demons running. Eg,
> /var can not be unmounted till the syslog demons are stopped.
>
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Steve Buchan
>
Thanks!
-Bryan
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Quinn, Bryan [mailto:Bryan.Quinn@CooperTools.com]
> Sent: 08 August 2002 14:30
> To: 'hpux-admin@dutchworks.nl'
> Subject: [HPADM] Device Busy on umount
>
> Hello Admins,
>
> I am trying to do a umount of a file system and am getting a device busy
> error. I searched the list for any answers to this problem, but I did not
> find anything that I have not tried other than the lsof command that
> someone
> on the list had suggested in one of the summaries. I tried to go to the
> ftp
> site at purdue.edu to download the lsof command, but had no luck. If
> someone
> has this command that they can send to me, or know of another site that I
> can download it from, I would appreciate it.
>
> Thanks!
> Bryan Douglas Quinn
> UNIX Support Specialist
> Cooper Power Tools
> Lexington, SC
> (803) 808-6770
> Bryan.Quinn@coopertools.com
>
>
>
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