Tip Of The Week: Finding open files with ‘lsof’

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Author: JT Smith

Anonymous Reader writes “Tip Of The Week: Finding open files with ‘lsof.’ Have you ever tried to unmount a filesystem and received that annoying “umount: /dir: device is busy” error message? Need to know who’s accessing the files so you can boot ’em off? hehe. Well, in this week’s tip, we’ll talk about the very helpful utility ‘lsof’, which should help alleviate your stress. Read the fill tip at http://www.linuxlookup.com/html/main/totw.html

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