Re: another busy mount point

On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 09:21:45AM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 7:18 AM, Chris H <bsd-lists@bsdforge.com> wrote:
> 
> > > On Mon, 5 May 2014 14:02:26 +0200
> > > Carlos <decvt100@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >> These are the PID of the proccess that are using your mount point.
> > >> With ps auxww | grep PID you can check which process they are.
> > >
> > > Thanx for pointing me in the right direction, however the command to
> > > use is not:
> > > fuser -c /dev/da5p2
> > >
> > > but:
> > > fuser -c /usr/home/pacija/mnt
> > >
> > > The result I get is:
> > > pacija@mephala:~ % fuser -c /usr/home/pacija/mnt/
> > > /usr/home/pacija/mnt/:  1067
> > >
> > > And greping ps waux with this number gives me:
> > > pacija@mephala:~ % sudo ps auxww | grep 1067
> > > pacija     1067   0.0  0.1   65828    7360  -  I    12:58pm
> > > 0:00.17 /usr/local/libexec/gvfsd-trash
> > > --spawner :1.8 /org/gtk/gvfs/exec_spaw/0
> > >
> > > Killing the process allows me to unmount volume, so this kinda solves
> > > my problem, thanx!
> > >
> > > Question remains what is this gvfsd-trash, what is it good for besides
> > > preventing me from unmounting external USB drive, is it possible to
> > > disable it without bad consequences?
> >
> > I believe the only consequence, is that you won't /necessarily/ get
> > accurate info regarding the /contents/ of your trash [folder] --
> > the icon won't display full/empty [possibly] correctly.
> >
> > An easier way to find the process holding on to the file system is "fstat
> | grep mountpoint". It will provide both the PID and the command in a
> single step. Also, it is not tied to fuse. Works for any file system.

fuser is not related to fuse, it is a part of POSIX.

> 
> gvfs-trash has been an issue with Gnome for some time and several patches
> were made to nautilus to fix it. I believe that the problem there is now
> fixed. At least I have not seen it for a while. Perhaps looking at the
> history of nautilus could provide a clue as to how to fix caja. I'll be
> moving to MATE very soon,so I may run into this, myself, soon.
> -- 
> R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired
> E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com
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