>> On Tue, 09 Sep 2003 19:11:45 +0100,
>> "Dr. David Kirkby" <drkirkby@ntlworld.com> said:

> Hi, I'm trying to unmount a file system, but it keeps
> saying its busy.

> sparrow / # umount /downloads umount: /downloads busy

> but I've tried looking with fuser and lsof to find an
> open file, but can't find one.

> sparrow / # umount /downloads umount: /downloads busy
> sparrow / # fuser /downloads /downloads: sparrow / #
> lsof +d /downloads sparrow / # umount /downloads umount:
> /downloads busy

> In the end I forced the unmount with the -f argument to
> umount, but I'd like to know why it was happening in the
> first place.

is it exported through NFS?

Maybe

# share

shows it exported?

hth
t