On Friday 13 February 2004 02:40 am, Trey Sizemore wrote:
If I get an error saying that a device is busy (like /dev/dvd), how can I tell what 'has' the device and how can I release it in order to unmount it?
the lsof command lists what processes have which files open. look at the man page for more info. Dylan
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