----- Original Message ----
> From: MHR <mhullr...@gmail.com>
> To: CentOS mailing list <centos@centos.org>
> Sent: Thu, May 20, 2010 7:38:19 PM
> Subject: [CentOS] Can't umount flash drive because an application has it
> locked
>
> This occasionally happens to me when I've been editing an OOo document
that
> resides on a flash drive I use with one of my laptops. I've
tried
> poking around in ps to find out which process has the drive
locked, and I
> can't figure it out. Nothing directly refers to the
flash drive except
> one of the hald processes, and it's just scanning
the drive (I tried killing
> that and it made no difference).
My usual sequence of events is as
> follows:
1. Plug in the flash drive.
2. Wait for it to appear on the
> desktop.
3. Start up a terminal window (which recognizes the flash drive
> and
runs sudo to allow execute permissions on the drive).
4. Run the
> script that unzips the files I want.
5. Open the file with the OO writer,
> edit it for a while, then save
and close it.
6. Update the zip archive (on
> the flash drive).
7. Close the terminal window.
8. Umount the drive, which
> fails.
I've tried waiting for as much as five minutes, running sync
> -
nothing. The last three times this happened, I had to shut down
> the
laptop (which I was going to do anyway) in order to free the
> flash
drive. This takes several minutes, which can be precious when I
> need
to bag the laptop in a hurry.
There's nothing in any of the
> syslogs. The laptop was just updates to
the L&G CentOS
> 5.5.
What am I
> missing?
Thanks.
mhr
to me it sounds like the zip program is culprit since it might still holding
onto the flash file system. did you try fuser -l on the flash drive and see
what has a hold on it. just a thought.
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