MHR wrote, On 05/20/2010 08:38 PM: > This occasionally happens to me when I've been editing an OOo document > that resides on a flash drive I use with one of my laptops. I've > tried poking around in ps to find out which process has the drive > locked, and I can't figure it out. Nothing directly refers to the > flash drive except one of the hald processes, and it's just scanning > the drive (I tried killing that and it made no difference). > <SNIP> > > What am I missing? > when next it happens, you might try (note, you are playing with a root tool, it may or may not work as a normal user): /sbin/fuser -m /media/myFlashDrive/ or /usr/sbin/lsof /media/myFlashDrive/ What can be *really* frustrating, is when those commands (with any options) don't give any info, and you cant get it unmounted (granted I have not seen that since using Fedora 1 machines with DRBD as an NFS server). man fuser "-m ... All processes accessing files on that file system are listed. ..." man lsof -- Todd Denniston Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane) Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter