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101-400 · Question #61

After running the command umount /mnt, the following error message is displayed: umount: /mnt: device is busy. What is a common reason for this message?

The correct answer is B. A user has a file open in the /mnt directory. See the full explanation below for the reasoning.

Question

After running the command umount /mnt, the following error message is displayed: umount: /mnt: device is busy. What is a common reason for this message?

Options

  • AThe kernel has not finished flushing disk writes to the mounted device.
  • BA user has a file open in the /mnt directory.
  • CAnother file system still contains a symlink to a file inside /mnt.
  • DThe files in /mnt have been scanned and added to the locate database.
  • EThe kernel thinks that a process is about to open a file in /mnt for reading.

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  • C
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