From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 2 11:52:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA27204 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 11:52:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from namodn.com (namodn.com [207.33.107.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA27197 for ; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 11:52:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from question@namodn.com) Received: from localhost (question@localhost) by namodn.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA09580; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 11:56:34 GMT (envelope-from question@namodn.com) Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1998 11:56:34 +0000 (GMT) From: freebsd-questions account To: Aaron Parmelee cc: "FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: how do i unmount cdrom, floppy, etc In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19981202134841.00a8f900@net66.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG To answer your question, umount /dev/fd0 should unmount your floppy .. :) Hmm, well, you CAN mount more than one device at a time.. (you do it everytime you boot! Mounting diff partitions to /, /home, /var, etc) What dir are you trying to mount the other devices on? Try unmounting the floppy. Can these other devices now be mounted? -rob ( www.namodn.com ) ( mailto : robert@namodn.com ) On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, Aaron Parmelee wrote: > > hello out there: > > today i tried to mount my cdrom, floppy drive, and zip drive. i > successfully mounted the floppy, but i couldn't mount anything else after. > i kept getting "device busy" flag. how do i unmount devices so that i can > mount other devices? > > incidently, the floppy was fd0, msdos filesystem. > > thanks > -aaron > "My motto is: do it my way or watch your butt." > -Nathan Arizona > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message