[CentOS] Can't unmount floppy

Wed May 25 12:41:37 UTC 2005
fluid <fluid at sc.rr.com>

Robert Moskowitz wrote:

> At 08:26 AM 5/25/2005, fluid wrote:
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>> most of the gui file managers will leave devices open by some process.
>>
>> use the fuser command to determine what process id you can kill to be
>> able to unmount your device :)
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> I am not really familar with these commands (maybe why I use the
> GUI!).  I just spent one year on Unix, Solaris 3 ii '93....
>
> I did a man fuser then tried:
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> fuser /media/floppy
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> and got an empty list back.
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if that is where your device is mounted, then its not currently mounted. ;)

beyond that, you need to open a terminal, stick in a floppy, and do:

mount /media/floppy

when you are done, make sure every program that was opened and in that
path are now closed, and issue:

umount /media/floppy

if its busy when you try and umount, then use fuser to figure out whats
got it, and use 'kill' to shut down those processes. those filemanagers
will leave paths open for no real reason (except stat'ing it, or
watching for new file objects)