umount: /mnt/floppy: device is busy

Bill Campbell linux-sxs
Mon May 17 12:01:58 PDT 2004


On Wed, May 05, 2004, Michael Hipp wrote:
>How do I get it to unbusy my floppy? I know good and bloody well nothing 
>is using the floppy, but it won't unmount. I killed every process within 
>a mile of it. I tried 'umount -f' and '-r' to no avail.

Try the command ``lsof /dev/fd0'' which should give a list of
process ids that are using the floppy.

Bill
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