From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 4 00:04:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA05436 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 4 Dec 1998 00:04:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from iway1.iw.net (iway1.iw.net [204.157.148.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA05431 for ; Fri, 4 Dec 1998 00:04:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dragonknight@dtgnet.com) Received: from death (rap-dialup-50.dtgnet.com [216.16.6.50] (may be forged)) by iway1.iw.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id CAA07403; Fri, 4 Dec 1998 02:03:03 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <000a01be1f5c$2f7fa7a0$0101a8c0@death> From: "Dragon Knight" To: "Gravel, Emmanuel (AZ77)" , "'Aaron Parmelee'" , Cc: "FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: how do i unmount cdrom, floppy, etc Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1998 01:00:04 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> i was able to mount the cdrom at the same time as the floppy, in a >>different directory. however, i was unable to unmount either one. >> >>after entering the command: umount /dev/fd0 >>i was rewarded with: mount: /cdrom: Device busy > >This may sound stupid, but was there something still within the >mounted drive (i.e. a terminal who's PWD was the mounted >device, a text editor reading a file from within the device, or >anything like that)? That's usually what could cause a device >to still be busy... > On the box sitting next to me (2.2.6-RELEASE) even being in the directory that serves as the mount point will cause an error message such as this. Samuel Greear To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message