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Re: Umount not being done

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notbob <notbob@notbob.invalid> writes:

> You might try df -a, which will give all dev and mount points.  

Yes, I neglected to mention an oddity in my original message. 

     $ df -a
     ...
     /dev/sda8             28835836   2649500  24721556  10% /var
     /dev/sdb1            480719056 198636876 257662980  44% /media/mirror
     fusectl                      0         0         0   -  /sys/fs/fuse/connections
     /dev/sdc1            480719056 198636876 257662980  44% /media/mirror
     /dev/sdd1            480719056 198636876 257662980  44% /media/mirror
     /dev/sde1            480719056 198636876 257662980  44% /media/mirror
     /dev/sdf1            480719056 198636876 257662980  44% /media/mirror
     /dev/sdg1            480719056 198636876 257662980  44% /media/mirror

This size and usage is correct for one external drive. But if I plug in
a different drive, this is what I still see and the alternative drive is
not accessible. 

> I know this seems silly, but this feeble geezer mind has more than
> once forgotten the simple fact you can't be in the dir your trying to
> umount.  ;)

I wasn't doing that, but since I had a lot of terminals open, I thought
I'd make sure they weren't open on the external drive. None were, but
when I deleted all these terminals, my problem disappeared. Apparently
some process dependent on one of these terminals was accessing the drive. 

So the problem disappeared and I umounted all the surplus device
files. Thanks for everyone's patience.

Haines Brown

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Umount not being done Haines Brown <haines@HistoricalMaterialism.info> - 2011-07-21 08:52 -0400
  Re: Umount not being done Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2011-07-21 14:48 +0100
    Re: Umount not being done Haines Brown <haines@HistoricalMaterialism.info> - 2011-07-22 08:39 -0400
      Re: Umount not being done Bill Marcum <bill@lat.localnet> - 2011-07-22 14:11 -0400
        Re: Umount not being done Haines Brown <haines@HistoricalMaterialism.info> - 2011-07-23 04:01 -0400
  Re: Umount not being done notbob <notbob@notbob.invalid> - 2011-07-21 13:55 +0000
    Re: Umount not being done J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2011-07-21 15:15 +0000
      Re: Umount not being done ebenZEROONE@verizon.net (Hactar) - 2011-07-21 14:47 -0400
        Re: Umount not being done Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2011-07-22 15:12 +0100
    Re: Umount not being done Haines Brown <haines@HistoricalMaterialism.info> - 2011-07-22 08:56 -0400
      Re: Umount not being done J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2011-07-22 13:18 +0000
      Re: Umount not being done Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2011-07-22 14:42 +0100
        Re: Umount not being done ebenZEROONE@verizon.net (Hactar) - 2011-07-22 11:30 -0400
        Re: Umount not being done "Trevor Hemsley" <Trevor.Hemsley@mytrousers.ntlworld.com> - 2011-07-22 17:45 -0500

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