It's one of the things that made me prefer using Linux a long long time ago. It's nice to be able to rename, move, and delete files while they are used.

[–] lordnikon@lemmy.world 15 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Linux fuser for the win

[–] marduk@lemmy.sdf.org 19 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

I've never fused Linux before, is it difficult?

[–] lordnikon@lemmy.world 11 points 13 hours ago

fuser is an easy command just point it at the file and it tells you the process ids that using that file.

[–] Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works 6 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Not anymore. Many distribution will have most of what you need out of the box depending on what your needs are. They mostly feel like windows XP or 7.

[–] baines@lemmy.cafe 6 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

where do i get linux xp 7?

[–] Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 10 hours ago

Arch wiki

[–] marduk@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 12 hours ago

https://kde.org/linux/

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[–] marcos@lemmy.world 5 points 13 hours ago

Or stay with the basics and use lsof.

Either way, not coming with that tool by default and forcing every usage of the file to lock it is a really stupid pair of mistakes.

[–] MisterMoo@lemmy.world 5 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Same on Mac except it’s an external drive that some mystery program is using.

[–] aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 11 hours ago

same with my kobo. It VERY rarely ejects it. It will just say "unable to eject. force eject?"

[–] bloubz@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

It's your finder, you're viewing the drive atm

[–] kayzeekayzee@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

On macos, that program is sometimes just Finder trying to calculate folder size

[–] undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 1 points 14 hours ago

I’ve never seen that before. Finder is usually smart enough to close any of its windows showing its files/folders before unmounting.

[–] WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago

omg

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