Example--Finding Out If a PCMCIA Memory Card Is Still In Use

In the following example, the processes 6400c and 6399c are accessing the /pcmem/pcmem0 directory, and the process owners are root and smith, respectively.

# fuser -u /pcmem/pcmem0
/pcmem/pcmem0: 6400c(root)  6399c(smith)

You can kill the processes individually (as superuser), or you can use the fuser command with the -k option, which kills all the processes accessing that file system:

# fuser -u -k /pcmem/pcmem0
/pcmem/pcmem0: 6400c(root)Killed  6399c(smith)Killed

The fuser command may not always identify all the killed processes. To be sure, run it again with the -u option.