Re: umount /var is busy on shutdown

On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 21:29, David L. Parsley wrote:

> Is this problem repeatable then?  Run mozilla, shut down & get '/var
> busy'?  If so, try running mozilla, then as root, manually switch to
> single-user (telinit S), stopping services, and using 'fuser' to see
> what's keeping it busy (might want to 'man fuser').  e.g.:
> /sbin/fuser -m /var
> /var:                 1826  1826r  1826c  1826e  1895  1895r  1895e 
> 1952  1952r  1952c  1952e  1957  1957r  1957e  1959  1959r  1959e
> ...
> The letter codes indicate how the process is making it busy.
> 
> regards,
>       David
> 
I had the same problem some time ago, in my case there were no files
opened on /var but it was reported as busy.

I resolved the problem removing /var as a separate partition.

                        Daniele