Umount - target busy

[Petter Adsen]

On Sat, 17 Oct 2015 15:23:56 +0100
R Kimber <richardkimber at btinternet.com> wrote:

> I have a script that unmounts a drive at the end.  I sometimes get a
> message saying "target is busy".
> 
> Is there a way of testing whether the target is busy that I can use
> before trying the umount, so that I can delay this command until I know
> the umount will complete without error?
> 
> - Richard.

See the man page for 'fuser' and take a look at the examples.

Petter

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