[wplug] Device busy

[Weber, Larry A]

I tried the -f option but it will not unmount a shared drive/directory.  -f
is also not an option with smbumount.

fuser was the help I needed.  I had made the mistake of being in the shared
directory before I switched user to root inorder to unmount it.  Stupid.

Thanks for the quick help.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	John Strange [SMTP:john at strangeness.org]
> Sent:	Thursday, June 05, 2003 9:00 AM
> To:	wplug at wplug.org
> Subject:	Re: [wplug] Device busy
> 
> 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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