Re: Making shutdowns safer for external drives

From	Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Making shutdowns safer for external drives
Date	2026-05-01 07:20 +0200
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On Fri, 01 May 2026 03:31:28 +0000
ghe2001 <ghe2001@protonmail.com> wrote:

> I've found that "in use" can also mean that you're looking at the
> disk.  Try just "cd" to get off it and get back home.

Right. lsof will find that.

lsof | grep <path to top of hdd>

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  Re: Making shutdowns safer for external drives "Alexander V. Makartsev" <avbetev@gmail.com> - 2026-04-30 22:30 +0200
    Re: Making shutdowns safer for external drives debian-user@howorth.org.uk - 2026-04-30 22:40 +0200
      Re: Making shutdowns safer for external drives "Alexander V. Makartsev" <avbetev@gmail.com> - 2026-04-30 23:40 +0200
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    Re: Making shutdowns safer for external drives <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2026-05-01 08:30 +0200
  Re: Making shutdowns safer for external drives Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2026-05-01 04:50 +0200
    Re: Making shutdowns safer for external drives ghe2001 <ghe2001@protonmail.com> - 2026-05-01 05:40 +0200
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