[CentOS] Can't unmount floppy

Robert Moskowitz rgm at htt-consult.com
Wed May 25 14:36:27 UTC 2005


At 09:19 AM 5/25/2005, Jim Perrin wrote:
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>>copied a file to it by dragging from one Nautilus window to another
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>>Then I tried to unmount the floppy and got an error that the device
>>(/media/floppy) was busy.
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>Did you still have the two nautilus windows open when you attempted
>to unmount the floppy? If you still have a window open and in the
>floppy directory or if you have a terminal session in a mounted
>directory, you will not be able to unmount the device. This to me
>would explain why your steps work some of the time, and not others.

thinking back...

I closed the window that was open to the floppy, but not the other.  Of 
course that one was open to the directory of the file that I dragged onto 
the floppy.

BINGO!

Next time I will close it too....







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