trouble unmounting floppy

dr_zayus69 · 10-19-2004, 08:15 PM

when i go to unmount my floppy drive it says it is busy. However i am 90% sure that is untrue. I am running fedora core 2. Has anyone else had this problem?

darthtux · 10-19-2004, 08:38 PM

You cannot be in any directory in the /mnt path for the cdrom. Do a
cd
to get to your home directory and then try to unmount it.

dr_zayus69 · 10-20-2004, 06:38 AM

thanks for the info but that didn't seem to be the problem. It still said drive busy with no directories open. Also no programs (except for daemons) were running when i tried. That is if i remembered correctly, but if any program was open when i tried it would have been AIM, which i couldn't see being a problem.

darthtux · 10-20-2004, 08:12 AM

Are you in a file browser like konqueror or nautilus which is showing the contents of the floppy or are you in a shell and in a directory of the floppy drive?

naren · 10-20-2004, 11:06 AM

hi

Try fuser -k /mnt/floppy as root

I think this will help

dr_zayus69 · 10-20-2004, 06:44 PM

i just open the floppy from the icon on the desktop so i am not in ther terminal but i close it before unmounting. And it says fuser command not found, so i assume it is a program i don't have.

dr_zayus69 · 10-20-2004, 07:11 PM

i don't seem to have a problem when mounting through the terminal. Is there a way to unmount the disk through the terminal? As of right now i have to right click the icon and select unmount, but would like to be able to do it all through the terminal