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 16 points 1 day ago (9 children)

Linux fuser for the win

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day 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.

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[–] MisterMoo@lemmy.world 5 points 22 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 21 hours ago

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

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[–] kayzeekayzee@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

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