From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 21 09:09:40 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CD5316A4CE for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2005 09:09:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: from nuumen.pair.com (nuumen.pair.com [209.68.1.119]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E407443D5D for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2005 09:09:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from thuppi@nuumen.pair.com) Received: (qmail 76602 invoked by uid 55300); 21 Jan 2005 09:09:39 -0000 Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 04:09:39 -0500 (EST) From: Tom Huppi X-X-Sender: thuppi@nuumen.pair.com To: Ronny Hippler In-Reply-To: <20050121025911.A396043D2D@mx1.FreeBSD.org> Message-ID: References: <20050121025911.A396043D2D@mx1.FreeBSD.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd newbies Subject: Re: Noob boo boo with samba X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 09:09:40 -0000 On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Ronny Hippler wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 23:59:12 -0500 (EST), Tom Huppi wrote: > > >> Well here is a noob sharing his experience. Don't mount a windows share > >> in your home dir! Now how do I unmount this shy of rebooting? it just > >> keeps giving a device is busy error even from root account. Doh! > >Try 'lsof' to see what processes are using what files. I've not > >tried it on a windows share, so YMMV, but it's the best tool > > Well I wound up rebooting because I am impatient :) I did install lsof > for the next time I do something stupid. thanks for the info. I doubt that what you did is stupid. You just have to do it right, and I suspect that you did else it probably wouldn't have worked. The problem you seem to have run across is pretty common. So is the solution you choose...you are not the first person to have done so...this is one of the few things I actually know for a fact to be true :) Thanks, - Tom