Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1998 01:00:04 -0700 From: "Dragon Knight" <dragonknight@dtgnet.com> To: "Gravel, Emmanuel (AZ77)" <Emmanuel.Gravel@CAS.honeywell.com>, "'Aaron Parmelee'" <trout@net66.com>, <robert@namodn.com> Cc: "FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: how do i unmount cdrom, floppy, etc Message-ID: <000a01be1f5c$2f7fa7a0$0101a8c0@death>
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>> 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
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