Unable to UMOUNT Floppy.
 

I was able to cd /mnt/floppy

and read/write to the floppy disk.

I would like to unmount (umount) but I get the followinng error:

[root@centos5 floppy]# pwd
/mnt/floppy
[root@centos5 floppy]# umount /mnt/floppy
umount: /mnt/floppy: not mounted

Read the man pages but doesn't really help.

Can some point out what I'm doing wrong here.

Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks

are you sure it's mounted in /mnt/floppy or is it really mounted? do or

Well, I issued both commands and didn't see the floppy, yet I can see the files on the floppy.

perhaps it's not the files on the floppy.. perhaps you mistakenly copied it to the /mnt/floppy directory when it was not yet mounted

I have the same experienced too when i tried to umount flash disk. I tried to click flash disk icon at the desktop and it was said "error, not mounted". When i check it from shell, flash disk was not recognized again. So i think it had been mounted. But sometimes it is come with no error.

as hinted at earlier, paste the output of the command "mount" into your reply; if the floppy is mounted, it should show up in the list of mounted devices, if not, it is not mounted and you won't be able to unmount a floppy that isn't mounted.

and did you hear the characteristic noise of the floppy operating and see the disk activity light going?

Even if it was mounted, and I suspect it wasn't, that probably wouldn't work well; change your working directory away from the floppy before you unmount.

Good points...

I'll look at the floppy with Windows explorer and see if it's on the floppy.

Then remove the floppy and look at it in /mnt/floppy...never thought of that, that's why I'm a newbie.

Thanks all, I'll advise.