Why won't they unmount?

[Net Llama!]

On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Bill Campbell wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 09:33:58AM -0700, David Aikema wrote:
> >I've currently running SuSE 7.3 with EXT2 filesystems.  For some reason my
> >partitions refuse to unmount whenever I try to reboot this system.  It'll
> >just freeze at that portion of the reboot process.
> >
> >The "drive activity" LED on my case remains lit solid... but no matter how
> >long I wait, nothing seems to change and it doesn't get beyond this point.
>
> Have you run ``lsof'' on the mount point to see what's using it?

I was going to suggest that, but since the problem is with /, running lsof
against it will be a nightmare.

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