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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