[CS-FSLUG] Things that bug me about Linux...

[jrichie@bible.edu]

On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 10:25 -0500, Fred A. Miller wrote:
> On Sun March 6 2005 11:01 pm, timbrown at ichristian.com wrote:
> > Here's  a question I've been meaning to ask for some time...
> >
> > Say I put a second drive in the computer to move data over. Let's assume
> > it's  /dev/hdb3 for a name.
> >
> > I configure it through Yast partitioner, then create an icon on my desktop.
> > It works fine. THEN when I'm done with it, I try to unmount it..."Only root
> > can unmount /dev/hdb3" Ok, I understand that.
> >
> > But I go to terminal and type umount /dev/hdb3 AS SU and it returns "can't
> > unmount, drive is busy". BUSY. BUSY??? How is it busy??? I'm not using
> > it!!!
> >
> > So, I just power down, unplug the thing, boot up, get the inevitable
> > console prompt, run yast, then pico fstab to remove the ref to the drive.
> >
> > Then I'm ok.
> >
> > What gives?
> 
> Have you tried logging out so you are at konsole? You have to change the run 
> levels to do that......I don't boot up into a graphic login. If so, then try 
> to unmount the drive there, then run "startx" to get back into KDE.

A lot of things can keep a drive busy. Just having a console with the
$PWD (present working directory) within that drive can do it. Also, you
can change permissions to allow users to mount and umount a drive if you
trust them that much.

JSR/