loopback won't unmount?!

[Net Llama!]

On Tue, 27 May 2003, Condon Thomas A KPWA wrote:
> Net Llama! wrote:
> > On Tue, 27 May 2003, Brad De Vries wrote:
> >> Have you tried something like:
> >> ls -l /proc/*/cwd
> >>
> >> which should show you the current working directory
> >> for each process on the system?
> >
> > No, i hadn't.  I ended up rebooting the box over the weekend.  thanks
> > though, i'll keep this in mind if this occurs again.
>
> One other thought that occurred too late to help.  Is it possible that you
> had logged onto another console (via <ctrl><Fn>) and left it in a directory
> on the mounted disk?  I know that sounds more like what we old farts would
> do, than you young whippersnappers, but...

While its possible, its not what happened in this case, as I had mounted
it while logged in via ssh, and attempted to unmount it about 10 minutes
later, also via ssh.  Only 2 other people have local console access to the
box, and neither of them were using it at the time.

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