[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
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