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Date:      Sat, 12 Mar 2011 18:54:57 -0700 (MST)
From:      Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To:        Robert <traveling08@cox.net>
Cc:        John Levine <johnl@iecc.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Unable to umount
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1103121835590.61524@wonkity.com>
In-Reply-To: <20110312093423.2b8f9eba@dell64>
References:  <20110312090634.3c1ce3ed@dell64> <20110312172959.65728.qmail@joyce.lan> <20110312093423.2b8f9eba@dell64>

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On Sat, 12 Mar 2011, Robert wrote:

> On 12 Mar 2011 17:29:59 -0000
> John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> wrote:
>
>>>> [robert@dell64] ~> umount Flash
>>>> umount: unmount of /home/robert/Flash failed: Device busy
>>
>> Try umount -f
>>
>> The problem is likely that HAL or one of its friends helpfully has the
>> device open just in case you might want to ask questions about it.
>
> That works!
> I did not have to do that before the recent updates to XFCE4 and Xorg
> but as long as I can umount, I'm happy.

Saw the same thing here, also with xfce.  lsof reports nothing open on 
either the mountpoint or the device.

fstat blames gam_server:

% fstat /home/wblock/Desktop/removable-storage/
USER     CMD          PID   FD MOUNT      INUM MODE         SZ|DV R/W NAME
wblock   gam_server  1409  776 /usr/home/wblock/Desktop/removable-storage 244864 drwx------    4096  r  /home/wblock/Desktop/removable-storage/



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