diff --git a/docs/tutorial.md b/docs/tutorial.md index 300b7ab9..fa4e8722 100644 --- a/docs/tutorial.md +++ b/docs/tutorial.md @@ -112,9 +112,10 @@ host don't behave as do link counts for files on local disks. ## Finding Processes Blocking Umount -When you need to unmount a file system with the umount command, you may find the -operation blocked by a process that has a file open on the file systems. Lsof -may be able to help you find the process. In response to: +When you need to unmount a file system with the `umount` command or remount it +with `mount -o remount`, you may find the operation blocked by a process that +has a file open on the file systems. Lsof may be able to help you find the +process. In response to: ```shell $ lsof @@ -124,7 +125,8 @@ Lsof will display all open files on the named file system. It will also set its exit code zero when it finds some open files and non-zero when it doesn't, making this type of lsof call useful in shell scripts. (See section 16.) -Consult the output of the df command for file system names. +`` can be a mount point or a device. Use the `df` command to +find this information. See the caveat in the preceding section about file references that persist in the kernel without open file traces. That situation may hamper lsof's ability