Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 21:58:47 +0200 From: "Dominique Goncalves" <dominique.goncalves@gmail.com> To: "Joe Marcus Clarke" <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Unable to umount removable media: device busy Message-ID: <7daacbbe0807091258s5248ff86kcc61149c0dac8c0d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1214677131.86194.3.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <7daacbbe0806250602m67ea3734o38e38b0460547e69@mail.gmail.com> <1214677131.86194.3.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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Thanks guys for your answers, On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 8:18 PM, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> wrote: > On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 15:02 +0200, Dominique Goncalves wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I use at home a Gnome desktop on FreeBSD 6.3 (ports last updated >> before the devel/gettext update). >> When I plug my removable HDD (USB Maxtor, 500Go formatted with fat32 >> filesystem), it is auto mounted. But I can't umount my HDD, it fails >> with >> >> >> umount: unmout of /media/disk failed: Device busy >> >> I tried from the command line and right clicking the icon on the desktop. >> All applications are closed. >> What can I do to solve this problem? > > As others have said, this may be fam/gamin related. You could try > running lsof on your volume to see what is actually holding it open. It is indeed gam_server %fstat | grep media dom gam_server 1384 948 /media/disk 1649686560 drwx------ 65536 r How to tell gam_server to leave /media/disk ? >> >> Another question about my HDD, when I shutdown my computer, my HDD is >> still turned on. This is not the case with Windows XP. >> How to turn off the HDD when I shutdown my computer? > > I don't see how this is GNOME or even FreeBSD-related. If the computer > is powered off, the peripherals should be shutoff unless the computer > provides power through the USB ports even when the CPU is off. > > Maybe XP is sending some shutdown signal to the drive... I'll see in the BIOS setting if I can find an option... > Joe > > -- > PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc > Regards. -- There's this old saying: "Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed him for life."
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