Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 12:51:35 -0500 From: Chris Brennan <xaero@xaerolimit.net> To: Robert <traveling08@cox.net> Cc: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unable to umount Message-ID: <AANLkTi=vDdnqogyFq65_QYtchrOis8WsF9CZZ3uorQ1z@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20110312093423.2b8f9eba@dell64> References: <20110312090634.3c1ce3ed@dell64> <20110312172959.65728.qmail@joyce.lan> <20110312093423.2b8f9eba@dell64>
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On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Robert <traveling08@cox.net> wrote: 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 > > 'umount -f' is dangerous, while it worked in your case, truly, make sure you don't have any open files in the future, just to ensure no loss of files or filesytem corruption. -- Did you know... If you play a Windows 2000 CD backwards, you hear satanic messages, but what's worse is when you play it forward.... ...it installs Windows 2000 -- Alfred Perlstein on chat at freebsd.org
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