HOW2 know which Desktop,VT is busy with USBstik

From	no.top.post@gmail.com
Newsgroups	alt.os.linux.slackware, comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	HOW2 know which Desktop,VT is busy with USBstik
Date	2011-04-24 11:26 +0000
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<ip11d5$ii0$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)

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You can't `umount <USBstik>` if you can't find which VT is
still 'busy with it' !!

I've normally got 20 VTs open, over the 4 Desktops.
Previously I used KDE3, and I made a utility using `lsof` & 
`pstree -p` to list a table of eg:
3,4 = /path1/file1
...
1,6 = /pathN/fileN

Now I've finally got a krnl:2.6.* & X running and I want to
use xfce, which doesn't group the VT-branches under the 
Desktop's 'node' in the `pstree -p` diagram.
It apparently just draws them chronologically.
So I can't see which VT 'has' a certain path.
Especially since most VTs have text files open in them,
which needs extra acrobatics to see `pwd`, so by the 
time I've found the correct VT, I've forgotten where
I'm heading.

Of course there's some file/S somewhere, which
relates the Desktop, VT to its open file/S.

How do YOU manage?

== TIA.

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HOW2 know which Desktop,VT is busy with USBstik no.top.post@gmail.com - 2011-04-24 11:26 +0000
  Re: HOW2 know which Desktop,VT is busy with USBstik Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com> - 2011-04-24 22:21 +0200
    Re (2): HOW2 know which Desktop,VT is busy with USBstik no.top.post@gmail.com - 2011-04-27 13:16 +0000

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