[linux-help] Re: floppy problem

["gLaNDix (Jesse Kaufman)" <glandix@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> then there may be some interference between 2+ related processes that
> are using the floppy. this command could probably be cleaned up a bit,
> but to find out which processes are using the floppy you could do
> something like:
>
>    ls -l /proc/*/cwd /proc/*/fd/* | fgrep /mnt/floppy
>
> it wouldn't be hard (and would be useful) to turn this into a program
> that would just print out the process ids or invoke ps with them. this
> sort of thing would also be useful for umount device busy failures.

'lsof' works great when trying to figure out what processes are using a
file/dir/dev....  not all distros come with it by default, but it's an
incredibly useful tool...

gLaNDix

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