From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 21 10:12:23 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 F3C6B16A4CE for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2005 10:12:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ptb-relay03.plus.net (ptb-relay03.plus.net [212.159.14.214]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3F0143D1D for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2005 10:12:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ml-freebsd-newbies@codepad.net) Received: from [80.229.159.44] (helo=[192.168.0.4]) by ptb-relay03.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1Crw3g-000MJN-10 for freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org; Fri, 21 Jan 2005 10:30:28 +0000 From: Xian To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 10:12:17 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 References: <20050121025911.A396043D2D@mx1.FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200501211012.17438.ml-freebsd-newbies@codepad.net> 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 10:12:23 -0000 On Friday 21 January 2005 09:09, Tom Huppi wrote: > 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 > You can use the -f option on umount, but I wouldn'trecomend this ulless you are sure your not going to do dammage. I mounted a USB Pen drive over my home dir and everything fell over. It ended in a kernel panic when I pulled the drive out still mounted. Oops. -- /Xian "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe." Albert Einstein