Re: umount problems

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To: "Christopher K. Johnson" <ckjohnson@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: umount problems
From: Marcel Janssen <korgull@xxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 20:24:43 +0200
Cc: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
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On Sunday 27 June 2004 11:51, Christopher K. Johnson wrote:
> Marcel Janssen wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I'm using a usb disk which I currently can not unmount. I get "device
> > busy" messages although no process is using the disk (fuser doesn't show
> > anything).
> >
> >Anyway I can force an unmount ?
>
> The problem is probably fam.
> Try:
> killall -HUP fam
> Then unmount.

It wasn't fam.
The problem simply disappeared, after 10 minutes I could unmount. Strange, 
never seen this before. Must be something regarding the hotplug stuff I 
guess.

Thanks,
Marcel

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