umount: /mnt/floppy: device is busy
Kurt Wall
kwall
Mon May 17 12:01:59 PDT 2004
In a 0.6K blaze of typing glory, 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.
>
> # umount /mnt/floppy
> umount: /mnt/floppy: device is busy
> # umount /dev/fd0
> umount: /mnt/floppy: device is busy
Does the output of
# lsof /dev/fd0
# lsof /mnt/floppy
and/or
# fuser /dev/fd0
# fuser /mnt/floppy
Show any open files?
Kurt
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