Tape drive busy

[Gerald Combs]

On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Brad Crotchett wrote:

> fuser -v /dev/st0 gave me no output, running lsof |grep /dev I saw that
> there were 2 processes, one instance of mt and one instance of dump that
> were both using it.  I am guessing that anacron started these to correct for
> missed cron jobs.  Anyway, it seems to be freed up now.....thanks for the
> help!

If you don't have fuser or lsof installed you can also use

    ls -l /proc/*/fd | less

It's not as pretty or convenient, though.