[Linux-disciples] Re: /mnt/sda usb key

[Dylan Thurston]

On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 12:21:46PM -0700, karl sokol wrote:
> Thanks to your help, so far, so good.  I have added:
> /dev/sda1	/mnt/sda	msdos	defaults,users	to fstab and
> can generally mount and umount.  However, there is a
> bug(?) in konqueror in which once I view /mnt/sda and
> then close konqueror, I get a 'device busy' error.  I
> can manually kill the offending pid ?kdeinit:
> konqueror -mimetype inode/directory file:/mnt/sda? but
> this is an obvious annoyance.  My actual question is
> broader.  Is there a way to force a umount?  

No, you count unmount a drive until it's no longer in use, so you have
to kill off all the processes with open files first.  'lsof' can help
in finding such processes.

Peace,
	Dylan
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