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Date:      Sat, 12 Mar 2011 09:34:23 -0800
From:      Robert <traveling08@cox.net>
To:        John Levine <johnl@iecc.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Unable to umount
Message-ID:  <20110312093423.2b8f9eba@dell64>
In-Reply-To: <20110312172959.65728.qmail@joyce.lan>
References:  <20110312090634.3c1ce3ed@dell64> <20110312172959.65728.qmail@joyce.lan>

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On 12 Mar 2011 17:29:59 -0000
John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> wrote:

> >> [robert@dell64] ~> umount Flash
> >> umount: unmount of /home/robert/Flash failed: Device busy
> 
> Try umount -f
> 
> The problem is likely that HAL or one of its friends helpfully has the
> device open just in case you might want to ask questions about it.
> 
> Regards,
> John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for
> Dummies", Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail.
> http://jl.ly

That works!
I did not have to do that before the recent updates to XFCE4 and Xorg
but as long as I can umount, I'm happy.

Thank you John



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