by Jian Zh » Thu, 11 Mar 1993 00:25:49
We have been in trouble umounting /cdrom due to 'device busy' on
SunOS4.1.3/Sparc 2 platform. We failed to locate any processes running
related to the cdrom. That left us no choice but rebooting.
I thought there should be a better way to do it. Therefore I want to
ask you a question: How do you force umount /cdrom or an external
drive?
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by Rich Verl Willia » Fri, 12 Mar 1993 02:44:04
>We have been in trouble umounting /cdrom due to 'device busy' on
>SunOS4.1.3/Sparc 2 platform. We failed to locate any processes running
>related to the cdrom. That left us no choice but rebooting.
>I thought there should be a better way to do it. Therefore I want to
>ask you a question: How do you force umount /cdrom or an external
>drive?
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by der Mou » Mon, 15 Mar 1993 22:32:36
What you want can't be done. If someone has the filesystem open,Quote:> I thought there should be a better way to do it. Therefore I want to
> ask you a question: How do you force umount /cdrom or an external
> drive?
If you believe such a process existed but you just couldn't find it,
perhaps you weren't using the right tools. I've found ofiles very
useful when searching for processes that are holding filesystems open.
der Mouse
by Howard Hua » Thu, 25 Mar 1993 00:21:17
>We have been in trouble umounting /cdrom due to 'device busy' on
>SunOS4.1.3/Sparc 2 platform.
We've been able to totally confuse our 4.1.3 IPX as well. Through
some sequence or other (I can't remember any details), we ended up in
a position where umount results in "device busy", yet we could eject
the disk with the button. But trying to mount another CD resulted in
another "device busy." Finally the system panicked, and the reboot
cleared things up.
>How do you force umount /cdrom or an external drive?
Sun's Online DiskSuite product includes a new version of umount which
has a -F option:
-F Forcibly unmount the file system. (See lockfs(8) for a
description of file system hard locking.) This option
is only supported on 4.2 type file systems.
I don't know much about it.
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by John Chambe » Fri, 02 Apr 1993 02:40:20
> If you believe such a process existed but you just couldn't find it,
> perhaps you weren't using the right tools. I've found ofiles very
> useful when searching for processes that are holding filesystems open.
("Don't use Sys/V" is another answer, I suppose, but it's not always
an available alternative. ;-)
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by Srinivasan S. » Sun, 04 Apr 1993 03:49:39
>> If you believe such a process existed but you just couldn't find it,
>> perhaps you weren't using the right tools. I've found ofiles very
>> useful when searching for processes that are holding filesystems open.
>Yes, ofiles is a neat little tool, but it doesn't come close to
>working on Sys/V. How would one go about asking "Who has /foo/bar
>open?" on a Sys/V machine? As near as I can tell from TFM, the answer
>is "Start killing processes until the problem goes away, and the last
>program you killed was the one with the file open." There oughta be a
>better way ...
>("Don't use Sys/V" is another answer, I suppose, but it's not always
>an available alternative. ;-)
NAME
fuser - identify processes using a file or file structure
SYNOPSIS
/usr/sbin/fuser [-[c|f]ku] files | resources [[-] [[c|f]ku]
files | resources] . . .
SVR4 is always the alternative :-)
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by Bengt Alverbo » Tue, 06 Apr 1993 17:38:12
I assume you checked that you weren't actually in the /cdrom directory
when trying to umount? It's easy to do that mistake. Just do an cd /
before umounting.
Maybe this was too easy an answer - but then again: sometimes the simplest
answers are those who work...
Regards,
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1. umount /cdrom : Device busy?
Hello,
I hope I am in a right group. If not, please point me to right direction.
Anyway, I have a question about unmounting /cdrom or an external hard
drive on Sun Sparc platform/SunOS 4.1.3. Sometimes you just can't
unmount it because the device is busy. I know there might be some
processes left running which use the resources on that disk. I can
use fuser and ps commands to track down what processes are left
over the network for some applications such as the AnswerBook. But
it's impossible to keep track of generic processes related to the
/cdrom or an external drive.
My question is that is there any way to force umount /cdrom or an
external drive without asking everybody to log out or shutdown
the server.
I appreciate any help from you.
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