Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 01:21:37 +1000 From: "David Whytcross" <dwhytcross@gmail.com> To: <freebsd@dreamchaser.org>, "FreeBSD Mailing List" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: umount device busy Message-ID: <7581F5930C4F42B28B1E4A5162491B35@astrolap> References: <4FCB7BBF.7090603@dreamchaser.org>
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Hi Gary, if you are using xfce4, then you have most likely got gamin running as well, this caused the same problem for me when trying to umount an external USB drive I resolved my umount problem by including the -f switch #umount -f /mnt/goflex Dave Whytcross ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gary Aitken" <freebsd@dreamchaser.org> To: "FreeBSD Mailing List" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Monday, June 04, 2012 12:59 AM Subject: umount device busy > Something I'm overlooking here and a lot of questions I can't seem to find > the answers to... > > I mounted a usb drive > mount -t ntfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt/goflex > > Then, as nearly as I can remember... > I then poked around a bit using the xfce4 browser. > I tried to mkdir from the mount point as a normal user: > cd /mnt/goflex > %mkdir breakaway > mkdir: .: No such file or directory > After checking write premissions, which I didn't have, > I did an su -l and tried again, with the same results. > > I then tried to unmount the drive, believing it was mounted read-only: > #umount /mnt/goflex > umount: unmount of /mnt/goflex failed: Device busy > > As nearly as I can tell, I don't have anything pointing at that drive. > > Questions: > > 1. What does the "No such file or directory" mean from mkdir? > It's a relative dir name, and I'm sitting at a valid dir. > > 2. How do I find out how the file-system was mounted? > mount (noargs) does not show read/write status > > 3. I tried lsof but I don't get any output from it: > lsof +d /mnt/goflex -x -- /mnt/goflex > Where does it go if not to stdout? > > 4. lsof has a *long* man page, so I'd like to save it temporarily so I > can search it in an editor. If I do man lsof >temp.tmp the output > contains backspace sequences which screw up searching. How do I get man > to produce plain text without the control sequences? > > 5. The lsof man page references a faq which is supposed to be part of the > distribution. > find . -ls | grep lsof doesn't show any faq. > > 6. And finally, any idea why umount says the device is busy? > > Seems like I should have been able to find the answer to at least one of > those but I'm coming up short. > > Thanks for relevant pointers, > > Gary > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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