On Thu, 04 Mar 2004 10:06:05 -0500 "Polashek, Matthew" <Matthew.Polashek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > yep. I can cd into it. i think you missed my point. if you have /mnt/flash/whatever currently set as a working directory anywhere at all, you will be unable to unmount /mnt/flash likewise, if a program has anything in it open for reading or writing, you will be unable to unmount it. the -l flag that another poster mentioned simply allows umount to go to completion, doing everything that it can. it will not be an immediate, complete unmount if the device is busy. you need to figure out why the device is busy. look at what programs you're running, go to all your shell windows and 'pwd' richard -- Richard Welty rwelty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Averill Park Networking 518-573-7592 Java, PHP, PostgreSQL, Unix, Linux, IP Network Engineering, Security