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Re: Umount not being done

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On 2011-07-22, Haines Brown <haines@HistoricalMaterialism.info> wrote:
> Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> writes:
>
>> Haines Brown <haines@HistoricalMaterialism.info> writes:
>>
>>> I'm running Debian Squeeze and have encountered a problem in that a
>>> mount point is busy and can't be unmounted. When a USB external
>>> drive (mount point is /media/mirror) is udev is forced
>>> to create a new device file. 
>
>> Just to be clear, are you saying: you tried umount, it failed because
>> busy, you unplugged it anyway and later plugged it back in?
>
> Yes. If I unplug and plug back in even a different external drive, a new
> device file is created (such as /dev/sdf1), the drive is automatically
> mounted on it, and so I can access the drive's contents. 
>
> However, now this new mount point, /dev/sddf1, is permanenly busy and so
> it can't be unmounted, even if the drive is unplugged. Because it is now
> permanently mounted on top of /dev/sde1, /dev/sdd1, /dev/sdc1 and
> /dev/sdb1, they can't be unmounted either. That is, each time I plug in
> a drive, a new device file is created that is mounted on top of the
> prior device files and can't be unmounted because it is permanently
> busy.
>
The problem is you're using one mount point for all drives. How did this
happen?

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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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