Oh.. I see what you mean. No nothing that I am aware of is accessing the cf card or it's subsequent directories at the time of this error though I haven't used the 'pwd' command. Matthew Polashek Associate Editor, Silver Burdett Ginn - Music Scott Foresman/Pearson Education 299 Jefferson Road Parsippany, NJ 07054-0480 office: 973.739.8709 fax: 973.739.8098 Matthew.Polashek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > ---------- > From: Richard Welty > Reply To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Thursday, March 4, 2004 10:23 AM > To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: USB cf reader problem unmounting > > 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 > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > > > **************************************************************************** This email may contain confidential material. If you were not an intended recipient, please notify the sender and delete all copies. We may monitor email to and from our network. ****************************************************************************