Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Thu, 3 Dec 1998 22:00:58 -0700 
From:      "Gravel, Emmanuel (AZ77)" <Emmanuel.Gravel@CAS.honeywell.com>
To:        "'Aaron Parmelee'" <trout@net66.com>, robert@namodn.com
Cc:        "FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: how do i unmount cdrom, floppy, etc
Message-ID:  <417E587B9C99D111A1010000F803B7CE4DDA04@az77-revere.bcasd.az.honeywell.com>

next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> i was able to mount the cdrom at the same time as the floppy, in a
>different directory. however, i was unable to unmount either one.
>
>after entering the command: umount /dev/fd0
>i was rewarded with: mount: /cdrom: Device busy

This may sound stupid, but was there something still within the
mounted drive (i.e. a terminal who's PWD was the mounted
device, a text editor reading a file from within the device, or
anything like that)?  That's usually what could cause a device
to still be busy...

Manu

To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?417E587B9C99D111A1010000F803B7CE4DDA04>