Hi: > Forgive me if this issue has been addressed and I am overlooking it in > the archive. My problem is when trying to either eject or unmount a > floppy drive or cdrom, I receive an error that the device is busy. There > is no activity on either the cdrom or floppy drive and no applications > open using either device. I have tried, as both an unprivileged user and > root) > umount -n /mnt/floppy > umount -r /mnt/floppy > eject /dev/fd0 May be is fam. Fam is a change-file monitor. When you mount any device ( net, cdrom, floppy...) fam follows the path to get a list of files and is status. May be fam is running when you wanna umount. To test: Try to unmount, if resource is busy, as root do 'killall fam', and try to unmount again. HTH Regards David Ballester Montolio Responsable de Sistemas y Comunicaciones Kern Pharma, S.L. www.kernpharma.com GNU!
