[mdlug] External Hard Drives: Mounting, Unmounting, Partial Mounting?

[Elisa Gomez]

> Message: 4
> Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 14:48:54 -0500
> From: "Ingles, Raymond"
> <Raymond.Ingles at compuware.com>
> Subject: Re: [mdlug] External Hard Drives: Mounting,
> Unmounting,
> 	Partial Mounting?
> To: "MDLUG's Main discussion list" <mdlug at mdlug.org>
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> > From: Elisa Gomez
> 
> > is there a command I can run that will output some
> > information about what's currently going on in
> there
> > in a user-friendly format that I will be able to
> > mostly understand? ;)
> 
>  lsof /media/externaldrive
> 
>  (Or whatever the drive is mounted on instead of
> "/media/externaldrive".)
> 
>  It will list all processes that have open files on
> that device ("lsof" is
> short for 'list open files'). E.g., on my machine:
> 

Brillant! Thank you :)

~E


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