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a problem about fuser

lin.chen — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 21:35:17 GMT

I use fuser to find which user has used the derectory.
fuser -cu /tmp
but I can not see who has used /tmp/tem1 and
/tmp/tem2.
is there any solution?thanks

Re: a problem about fuser

Bill Hassell — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 22:12:53 GMT

Directories are busy when someone opens the directory by cd'ing into it. If users are in another directory and open a file with a full pathname such as /tmp/tem1/somefile, then the tem1 directory will not be busy. You will have to investigate each of the files in tem1 or tem2 to see which file(s) are busy.

Re: a problem about fuser

RAC_1 — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 22:29:18 GMT

fuser isn't good at it. lsof +D /dir_name gives all files that are busy under it.

Re: a problem about fuser

lin.chen — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 22:42:49 GMT

I just want to see all directory in /tmp by fuser command

Re: a problem about fuser

Yogeeraj_1 — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 00:33:50 GMT

hi,

did you try?

ll /tmp |grep "drw"

kind regards
yogeeraj

Re: a problem about fuser

Mark A. Smith — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 12:44:16 GMT

A user does not have to be in a file system
to make it busy, a program can keep a file system busy and even make it so that it cannot be umounted, so "fuser -u /filesystem" comes up blank, in that case you would have to know which program can be doing that and stop it.

Re: a problem about fuser

Sp4admin — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 13:16:37 GMT

hi,

You should beable to use "fuser -kc" to see what process is holding that directory. What ever PID returns from fuser you should beable to kill that process.