umount: /mnt/floppy: device is busy

Michael Hipp Michael
Mon May 17 12:01:58 PDT 2004


Bill Campbell wrote:
> 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.

Thanks. That did the job. Weird thing is it gave me some process ids 
almost an hour old. The device had been unmounted and mounted again at 
least once since those processes came into creation.

Michael



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