[CentOS] umount problem

Tue Oct 7 22:19:00 UTC 2014
m.roth at 5-cent.us <m.roth at 5-cent.us>

Fred Smith wrote:
> I've got a usb HD mounted, and it has been mounted since the weekend, and
> has been kept busy during that period.
>
> now I"m done with it an want to umount it, but neither umount nor the
> on-screen icon (when right-clicked) will let me do it:
>
> it is /dev/sdd1, mounted as /media/seagateusb. when root tries to
> umount it we get this:
<snip>
It's under control of autofs. You can open the GUI file manager, and do a
safely remove/eject.

Or you can stop autofs for a minute, and then umount it.

      mark