most of the gui file managers will leave devices open by some process. use the fuser command to determine what process id you can kill to be able to unmount your device :) Robert Moskowitz wrote:> Using the Disk Management GUI. > > I mounted the floppy > > copied a file to it by dragging from one Nautilus window to another > > Then I tried to unmount the floppy and got an error that the device > (/media/floppy) was busy. > > This is not the first time this has happened to me. > > And it does not happen all the time. In fact, yesterday I did the > exact same steps with no problem. > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >
Using the Disk Management GUI. I mounted the floppy copied a file to it by dragging from one Nautilus window to another Then I tried to unmount the floppy and got an error that the device (/media/floppy) was busy. This is not the first time this has happened to me. And it does not happen all the time. In fact, yesterday I did the exact same steps with no problem.
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1> > copied a file to it by dragging from one Nautilus window to another > > Then I tried to unmount the floppy and got an error that the device > (/media/floppy) was busy. >Did you still have the two nautilus windows open when you attempted to unmount the floppy? If you still have a window open and in the floppy directory or if you have a terminal session in a mounted directory, you will not be able to unmount the device. This to me would explain why your steps work some of the time, and not others. - -- Jim Perrin -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Darwin) iD8DBQFClHt2AKud7eJUYhARAnfSAJ0W3YNy5EqYSM+oBYbMX7qSDxLzDACfT4ZD ioq9ISDGJlnEwTHwGde8KR0=VDy3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----