Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 10:12:17 +0000 From: Xian <ml-freebsd-newbies@codepad.net> To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Noob boo boo with samba Message-ID: <200501211012.17438.ml-freebsd-newbies@codepad.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.58.0501210403001.71031@nuumen.pair.com> References: <20050121025911.A396043D2D@mx1.FreeBSD.org> <Pine.BSF.4.58.0501210403001.71031@nuumen.pair.com>
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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
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