On Tue, Oct 07, 2014 at 06:19:00PM -0400, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
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.
actually, no I can't. if I right-click on seagateusb and click unmount, I get an error box saying "Unable to unmount seagateusb. Cannot unmount because file system on device is busy."
OTOH, if I choose "safely remove drive" instad, I get "Unable to stop drive. This file cannot be stopped."
I've killed all the shells and in fact all the interactive processes then logged off and on, so I'm pretty sure it's nothing I ran that is got a hold on the device. I hate to use the three-finger-salue from Windows, just to fix a piddly little problem like this :)