On 25/02/14 14:21, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > One long term "non-easy" issue that keeps coming up a few times a > year, is attempting to dismount an external drive/usb stick and this > failing due to a file being opened. > > lsof is a good start, and sometimes advised in the error message with > some other command. > > However, what ends up the case is gvfs has it's greedy fingers stuck > right up the drive and refuses to let go! > > There _ought_ be a simple force dismount option. There ought be one > command (I know, let's say "umount") that achieves this, optionally > with a --quiet option so it doesn't stop to ask the user in case some > file is actually open for editing. > > Does such a thing exist? > > But more importantly, how do I cause gvfs to "detach", e.g.: > $ sudo umount -vd /media/tmp # same result with -i option > umount: /media/tmp: device is busy. > (In some cases useful info about processes that use > the device is found by lsof(8) or fuser(1))
I don't run GNOME, but I imagined gvfs didn't use mount. > > $ lsof /media/tmp/ > COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME > gvfsd-met 10600 justa mem REG 254,5 32768 49238 > /media/tmp/352/.local/share/gvfs-metadata/uuid-e4dffbb8-6a22-4ae5-99a7-11d3734976c3-b71ca6c5.log > gvfsd-met 10600 justa mem REG 254,5 696 49235 > /media/tmp/352/.local/share/gvfs-metadata/uuid-e4dffbb8-6a22-4ae5-99a7-11d3734976c3 > gvfsd-met 10600 justa 9r REG 254,5 696 49235 > /media/tmp/352/.local/share/gvfs-metadata/uuid-e4dffbb8-6a22-4ae5-99a7-11d3734976c3 > gvfsd-met 10600 justa 10u REG 254,5 32768 49238 > /media/tmp/352/.local/share/gvfs-metadata/uuid-e4dffbb8-6a22-4ae5-99a7-11d3734976c3-b71ca6c5.log > > $ gvfs-mount -l # extract follows: > Volume(3): 1.1 GB Volume > Type: GProxyVolume (GProxyVolumeMonitorUDisks2) > Mount(0): 1.1 GB Volume -> file:///media/tmp > Type: GProxyMount (GProxyVolumeMonitorUDisks2) > > $ gvfs-mount -ui /media/tmp/ > Error unmounting mount: One or more programs are preventing the > unmount operation. > > WTFiretruck? :) Is that the process that shows how much space is available in the GNOME file manager widget? You don't have your file manager attempting to display the contents of a drive you simultaneously want to unmount (and therefore not display, or it's free space) - do you? ps aux | grep -i gproxyvol > > Of course a reboot would work, but that' just not the GNU way! :) > > Craziness ending suggestions REALLY appreciated, > Zenaan > > Kind regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/530c1162.30...@gmail.com
