Device Or Resource Busy Errors In Linux

Posted by jwright on Mar 6, 2010 11:33 AM EDT
Innovations Technology Solutions Blog; By Jeremy Mack Wright
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lsof is used to LiSt Open Files, hence the command’s name. It’s a handy tool normally used to list the open files on a system along with the associated processes or users, and can also be used to gather information on your system’s network connections. When run without options, lsof lists all open files along with all of the active processes that have them open. To get a full and accurate view of what files are open by what processes, make sure that you run the lsof command with root privileges.

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