Forced UNMOUNT of a File system - CD

From: <nvbr_at_iitk.ernet.in>
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 14:56:08 +0530

Dear Managers,

 I mount a CDROM say, on /cdrom (directory)
 How can I know what are the processes( or users ) accessing
 this device(filesystem) actively or passively( i.e. cd to this
 directory /cdrom and keep idle) ?

 How can I unmount a Filesystem diregarding the message "Device Busy" ?

 I understand that the kernel(OS) keeps in a table all the
 information pertaining to each and every file opened by
 some user or the other. In some cases more than one process
 may simultaneously use a particular file. If I get this info,
 I may kill all these processes and then unmount. There may be
 idle processes also.
 But how to use this knowledge and practically solve my
 problems mentioned above?

 Any ready_to_use utilities(like iostat to get drive usage info)
 or tips which can be converted to utilities in short time.

  Thanks for any help in this matter,

Bye


Brahmaji


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NV Brahmaji Rao
IIT Kanpur
email: nvbr_at_iitk.ernet.in
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