Tape drive busy

[Steven Elling]

On Sunday 27 October 2002 11:24, Brad Crotchett wrote:
> Can anyone tell me what usually causes this?
>
> [root at ray log]# mt -f /dev/st0 rewind
> /dev/st0: Device or resource busy

Try using fuser to determine what if any processes are using the device.

Something like the following:

fuser -v /dev/st0

Check out the man page on fuser for more details.

fuser does the same thing as lsof.  fuser is also on virtually all systems 
where lsof isn't.