Hi,
I am trying to unmount logical volume /var. the unmount utility reported the device is busy. I used
“/sbin/fuser -mv /var” to find out which processes are using the volume. Then I tried to stop these processes using the command “/sbin/fuser -ki /var” but nothing happened.
Code:
[root@localhost ~]# /sbin/fuser -ki /var
[root@localhost ~]#
I tried again and I got the same result. I used “/sbin/fuser -mv /var” and the same processes are still running and the device is still busy.
I understand that I can use the PID with kill command to stop some of these processes, but that is not a practical solution if there is long list of processes. Also stopping some of them using kill command, can just reboot the system. In general, manually stopping these processes is not practical at all.
My question is,
WHY “/sbin/fuser -ki /var” is not working or giving any warning or reporting messages?
(OS Fedora 8)
thanks in anticipation.
