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

[Ciaran Hamilton]

Hi,

[snip]
> On Sun March 6 2005 11:01 pm, timbrown at ichristian.com wrote:
> > 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!!!

One of the most common reasons I've found is that I'm still in the
directory in the console. Consider this:

$ mount /mnt
$ cd /mnt
$ su
# cd /
# umount /mnt

That'll give me a "Drive busy" error because even though I've changed
out of the directory in su, I haven't done so outside of su. I'd need to
do something like this to unmount it:

# exit
$ cd /
$ su
# umount /mnt

...and then it'll work.

Another way to tell when it's being used is to do "lsof | grep /mnt" as
root. That'll tell you everything that's using that path.

 - Ciaran.

> >
> > 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.
> 
> Fred
> 
> -- 
> The only bug free software from MickySoft is still shrink-wrapped
> in their warehouse..."
> 
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