a problem about fuser

[lin.chen]

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

[Bill Hassell]

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.

[RAC_1]

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

[lin.chen]

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

[Yogeeraj_1]

hi,

did you try?

ll /tmp |grep "drw"


kind regards
yogeeraj

[Mark A. Smith]

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.

[Sp4admin]

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.