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2 JohnMcPherson 1 __Device or Resource Busy__
1 JohnMcPherson 2
3 An attempt to access or modify something failed as it is already in use. Probably the most common reason for seeing this is trying to unmount a disk partition while processes have open file descriptors on that device.
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5 Eg:
6 $ mount /dev/fd0 /floppy
7 $ cd /floppy
8 (your shell now using the floppy disk)
9 $ umount /floppy
10 umount /floppy: device is busy
3 PerryLorier 11
12 If you want to find out why a disk is busy
4 KaiHennig 13 fuser -vm /floppy
3 PerryLorier 14 will list the processes that are using that disk :)
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