Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:20 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Dominique Goncalves <dominique.goncalves@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Unable to umount removable media: device busy Message-ID: <1215634580.96637.51.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <7daacbbe0807091258s5248ff86kcc61149c0dac8c0d@mail.gmail.com> References: <7daacbbe0806250602m67ea3734o38e38b0460547e69@mail.gmail.com> <1214677131.86194.3.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <7daacbbe0807091258s5248ff86kcc61149c0dac8c0d@mail.gmail.com>
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--=-QAbWXyM4b6ZdEoEPqN0W Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 21:58 +0200, Dominique Goncalves wrote: > Thanks guys for your answers, >=20 > On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 8:18 PM, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>= 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 deskt= op. > >> 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. >=20 > It is indeed gam_server >=20 > %fstat | grep media > dom gam_server 1384 948 /media/disk 1649686560 drwx------ 65536 = r >=20 > How to tell gam_server to leave /media/disk ? The only way to do this to restart gam_server. Though I'm not sure who is telling gamin to monitor this drive. Joe >=20 > >> > >> 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... >=20 > I'll see in the BIOS setting if I can find an option... >=20 > > Joe > > > > -- > > PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc > > >=20 > Regards. >=20 --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-QAbWXyM4b6ZdEoEPqN0W Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAkh1HJMACgkQb2iPiv4Uz4dCsgCgoesmVJ9kjpfTtYkCAQZkUoUE 63EAnjMb9JJZI6wZ3N2+PBYTQ4B/1W6a =Y4JE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-QAbWXyM4b6ZdEoEPqN0W--
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