Date: Wed, 6 May 1998 21:05:19 -0400 (EDT) From: Lanny Baron <beef@cybertouch.org> To: jack <jack@germanium.xtalwind.net> Cc: drifter@stratos.net, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: device busy... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980506210325.636B-100000@cybertouch.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980504004025.18170A-100000@germanium.xtalwind.net>
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On Mon, 4 May 1998, jack wrote: > On Mon, 4 May 1998 drifter@stratos.net wrote: > > > Just as a note, I tried umount /usr a couple days ago when I was > > backing up some file systems. I was in single user mode. It would not > > allow me to, saying the device was busy. So I remounted /usr, and did > > an lsof, and found no files using /usr except lsof and more, which the > > output > > of lsof was being piped to. > > This happened to me one other time. Does anyone have any ideas? > > What was your working directory at the time? > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Jack O'Neill Systems Administrator / Systems Analyst > jack@germanium.xtalwind.net Crystal Wind Communications, Inc. > Finger jack@germanium.xtalwind.net for my PGP key. > PGP Key fingerprint = F6 C4 E6 D4 2F 15 A7 67 FD 09 E9 3C 5F CC EB CD > enriched, vcard, HTML messages > /dev/null > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message > I was on /cdrom and did umount /cdrom ....didn't work...got device busy. Then I left /cdrom and went to somewhere else (i don't think it matters so long as you are not in the directory you wish to umount) and did umount -f /cdrom and presto it worked! Later, * Lanny Baron * | Have you had your BEEF today? | | http://www.tht.net/~beef | | * | Want a great operating system? | | try FreeBSD, it's remarkable! | * http://www.FreeBSD.org * &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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