[wplug] Device busy
John Strange
john at strangeness.org
Thu Jun 5 08:59:47 EDT 2003
Later version of linux support:
umount -f /path/to/mountpoint
Also you'll get this error if you are in the current path that you are
trying to unmount, or you have started a process of some sort while you
were in that path.
fuser -v /mnt/path is a nice command.
- John
On Thu, 2003-06-05 at 08:42, Weber, Larry A wrote:
> Occassionally when I try to umount or smbumount a device I get a message
> that says the device could not be unmounted because it is busy. This will
> happen when I forget and take a CD or floppy out of the drive before
> unmounting it. I don't know why it occurs with smbumount. Other than
> rebooting the system is there a way to clear the "busy" so that I can
> propery umount? Until I umount or smbumount I cannot mount or smbmount.
>
> -laweber
>
> _______________________________________________
> wplug mailing list
> wplug at wplug.org
> http://www.wplug.org/mailman/listinfo/wplug
More information about the wplug
mailing list