On 10/7/2014 3:13 PM, 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: > > # umount /media/seagateusb > umount: /media/seagateusb: device is busy. > (In some cases useful info about processes that use > the device is found by lsof(8) or fuser(1)) > > lsof | grep sdd1 gives this: > > $ lsof | grep sdd1 > > jbd2/sdd1 26358 root cwd DIR 253,1 4096 2 / > jbd2/sdd1 26358 root rtd DIR 253,1 4096 2 / > jbd2/sdd1 26358 root txt unknown /proc/26358/exe > whats process 26358? ps -fwp 26358 will show you this... -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast