Archive for 3rd February 2010

umount: device is busy

Sometimes after mounting some nfs devices, you cannot easily un-mount them. You get some error: “device is busy”. I often get this error when I want to un-mount some shared folders like ‘/home’ and ‘/usr’.The reason is simple: the devices you are un-mouting are busy;) That’s to say some files on the mouted devices are being used by some process.

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