[X Newbies] "...disk is in use" But by what process??

[Robert Sandilands]

There is a Unix utility called lsof available at http://www.geeklair.net/downloads/ which can help... But the last time I looked at it, it was not really newbie friendly.

Robert Sandilands

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>Yes, I could do this brute force next time it happens, but I was hoping
>there was a smart way to do it.  Obviously the OS knows which app is causing
>the problem - is there a way for it to tell me, so I can fix it without
>interrupting my work by quitting 25 applications?  Also, the culprit could
>be some kind of background process.

>Jerry