Solving resource contention problems with fuser

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Nov 14, 2007 3:03 PM EDT
Linux.com; By Duane Odom
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Have you ever tried to unmount your USB thumb drive only to get the message "device is busy"? Like me, you probably thought, "I know I closed that file manager window. What's keeping it busy now?" fuser is a command that can answer that question for you, along with similar questions about what processes are using what files or sockets.

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