Re: Umount not being done

From	notbob <notbob@notbob.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject	Re: Umount not being done
Date	2011-07-21 13:55 +0000
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On 2011-07-21, Haines Brown <haines@HistoricalMaterialism.info> wrote:

>
>   # umount -fv /dev/sdd1
>   umount2: Device or resource busy
>   umount: /media/mirror: device is busy.
>         (In some cases useful info about processes that use
>          the device is found by lsof(8) or fuser(1))
>   umount2: Device or resource busy
>
> There were bug reports for mountusb, but in those cases, /proc/mount
> showed the mount point not mounted, but in my case they are mounted:

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

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.  ;)

nb

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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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