[wplug] Device busy

Eric C. Cooper ecc at cmu.edu
Thu Jun 5 10:10:04 EDT 2003


On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 08:42:33AM -0400, 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.

Using the "lazy" option (umount -l) might work.

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Eric C. Cooper          e c c @ c m u . e d u



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