From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 9 19:58:48 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E10D41065680 for ; Wed, 9 Jul 2008 19:58:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dominique.goncalves@gmail.com) Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com (wr-out-0506.google.com [64.233.184.229]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 805508FC22 for ; Wed, 9 Jul 2008 19:58:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dominique.goncalves@gmail.com) Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id c8so1210162wra.27 for ; Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:58:47 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=urivueFE8CZVXcUWO/Y2TBiBmWO4Oa3mGLZ4BXj/RE0=; b=uW1B9tUiyw5PwcFhdSacv9oForAb3Kx09wmo99+GdBgQOg6MFQTV1P96J4OH+Jfy9q A68CIZpTpGPraDfNNWS9j4fChznkZofdyn0eDvF5KU+uTFuEaekAiO7g4i46gQvZ9pjR jVqwRBT9lq/URC8f7NEUrHB7YKGL6YuFFj81s= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=bYy7RySElwivrWjf3cumt92YmFsepFWXBJ6Eet3EMivDO8Yj1PyKQCMQVZpre9dAje DlHaiglhalqrFQ2SZa3KMln1r8LNOsODPevfzZI8Qv7MG+LPefyYz1ZDZ9o6NuQtHx71 4z0Z5d1ua2e9r/F1EgF84aiyTv2oahODT5SHA= Received: by 10.100.212.6 with SMTP id k6mr6946377ang.142.1215633527519; Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:58:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.100.232.12 with HTTP; Wed, 9 Jul 2008 12:58:47 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <7daacbbe0807091258s5248ff86kcc61149c0dac8c0d@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 21:58:47 +0200 From: "Dominique Goncalves" To: "Joe Marcus Clarke" In-Reply-To: <1214677131.86194.3.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <7daacbbe0806250602m67ea3734o38e38b0460547e69@mail.gmail.com> <1214677131.86194.3.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users Subject: Re: Unable to umount removable media: device busy X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:58:49 -0000 Thanks guys for your answers, On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 8:18 PM, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 15:02 +0200, Dominique Goncalves wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I use at home a Gnome desktop on FreeBSD 6.3 (ports last updated >> before the devel/gettext update). >> When I plug my removable HDD (USB Maxtor, 500Go formatted with fat32 >> filesystem), it is auto mounted. But I can't umount my HDD, it fails >> with >> >> >> umount: unmout of /media/disk failed: Device busy >> >> I tried from the command line and right clicking the icon on the desktop. >> All applications are closed. >> What can I do to solve this problem? > > As others have said, this may be fam/gamin related. You could try > running lsof on your volume to see what is actually holding it open. It is indeed gam_server %fstat | grep media dom gam_server 1384 948 /media/disk 1649686560 drwx------ 65536 r How to tell gam_server to leave /media/disk ? >> >> Another question about my HDD, when I shutdown my computer, my HDD is >> still turned on. This is not the case with Windows XP. >> How to turn off the HDD when I shutdown my computer? > > I don't see how this is GNOME or even FreeBSD-related. If the computer > is powered off, the peripherals should be shutoff unless the computer > provides power through the USB ports even when the CPU is off. > > Maybe XP is sending some shutdown signal to the drive... I'll see in the BIOS setting if I can find an option... > Joe > > -- > PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc > Regards. -- There's this old saying: "Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed him for life."