On Mon, 05 Jul 2004 09:13:12 -0700, Timothy Payne <tim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have a cheap smart media card reader (2 Windoze boxes couldn't find
> it) but Fedora 2 uses it as /dev/sda1. I can't unmount it, I just get
> the error device is busy and it's not. I tried su root in a terminal,
> and logging out and umount as root but got the same error. If I reboot
> it's not a problem because I don't have it in my FSTAB, is there a way
> to restart the device I hate to just yank the card out mounted.
What I do when my reader does that (which it occassionaly does) is to
do a "sync" followed by a "umount -l /dev/sda1" (-l is "lazy"). You
can check to see what process the kernel thinks is holding things up
by doing "fuser -v /dev/sda1".
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Ben Steeves
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