From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 12 17:51:55 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9FE3106564A for ; Sat, 12 Mar 2011 17:51:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xaero@xaerolimit.net) Received: from mail-iw0-f182.google.com (mail-iw0-f182.google.com [209.85.214.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABF518FC0C for ; Sat, 12 Mar 2011 17:51:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iwn33 with SMTP id 33so4347623iwn.13 for ; Sat, 12 Mar 2011 09:51:55 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.42.220.201 with SMTP id hz9mr4962027icb.15.1299952315046; Sat, 12 Mar 2011 09:51:55 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.42.144.202 with HTTP; Sat, 12 Mar 2011 09:51:35 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20110312093423.2b8f9eba@dell64> References: <20110312090634.3c1ce3ed@dell64> <20110312172959.65728.qmail@joyce.lan> <20110312093423.2b8f9eba@dell64> From: Chris Brennan Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 12:51:35 -0500 Message-ID: To: Robert Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: John Levine , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unable to umount X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 17:51:56 -0000 On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Robert wrote: On 12 Mar 2011 17:29:59 -0000 > John Levine 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