Why won't they unmount?

[David Aikema]

On July 25, 2002 11:15 am, Net Llama! wrote:
> 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.

Running lsof spews out a total of 144 kilobytes while running kde.  I imagine 
that it'd be somewhat less if I dropped to runlevel 3, but I'm not quite sure 
what to look for in there either

David Aikema