[Clug-tech] Finding open files on a device. Was: Procedure for removing USB drives

Shawn sgrover at open2space.com
Tue Nov 28 12:43:39 PST 2006


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The fuser command does this for you.  Man fuser will give you the
details you need.

Shawn

Mark Carlson wrote:
> This reminds me of something that happens to me at random occasions.
> Is there a way of finding out which files are open on a mounted
> device?  I know you can get a list of file descriptors for a process
> from /proc/<pid>/fd/ so I'm wondering if there is something similar to
> see what files are open on a device.  Anybody have any ideas?

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