From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 21 8:26:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.citechco.net (smtp.citechco.net [203.127.137.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 042EB37B5AB for ; Mon, 21 Feb 2000 08:26:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mojahed@citechco.net) Received: from mail.citechco.net (mail.citechco.net [203.127.137.3]) by smtp.citechco.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA16308 for ; Mon, 21 Feb 2000 22:21:50 +0600 (GMT+0600) Received: from mars.cosmos.net (ls2-15-186.citechco.net [203.127.137.186]) by mail.citechco.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA30462 for ; Mon, 21 Feb 2000 22:28:45 +0600 Received: (from mojahed@localhost) by mars.cosmos.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA01349 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 21 Feb 2000 09:27:43 +0600 (BDT) (envelope-from mojahed) Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 09:27:42 +0600 From: Mojahedul Hoque Abul Hasanat To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Can't umount floppy [was: Mounting a floppy] Message-ID: <20000221092742.B1204@mars.cosmos.net> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <85256888.00832C19.00@mail.whtz.com> <20000218105810.E14651@extremis.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <20000218105810.E14651@extremis.demon.co.uk> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I sometimes can't umount (modos) floppies after mount_msdos'ing them. I've found a work-around, instead of umount /mnt/floppy/ I use: umount /dev/fd0 and it works! The question is, why I can't umount in the normal way, and even more, how in the world does umount /dev/fd0 work? -- Mojahed To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message