Re: unmounting feedback

[nf <nf2 scheinwelt at>]

On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 09:40 -0500, William Lovaton wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was thinking that it would be a great idea to add more information
> when you try to unmount a file system but it is not possible because
> there is a process blocking it.
> 
> When you get the message "Device busy".  Nautilus should be able to tell
> you what process(es) is keeping that device busy.
> 
> I recently learned to use the fuser command to find which process is
> blocking a device when I want to unmount my CD-Drive, a USB drive, a
> VFAT FS, Samba filesystems, etc.
> 
> That way I can find the PID, but nautilus should be able to show the app
> name for instance.
> 
> An example would be the following:
> # fuser -m smb/dncclo07/Proyectos
> smb/dncclo07/Proyectos:  2694  3416
> 
> 
> The only problem I see is that fuser is located in /sbin and is only
> accesible by root.

I have written a little helper tool for this purpose:

http://www.scheinwelt.at/~norbertf/wbumount/

I think the fam-monitoring problem has been solved in newer Gnome
versions, but of course other processes can block umount.

Norbert