On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Robert <travelin...@cox.net> wrote:
On 12 Mar 2011 17:29:59 -0000 > John Levine <jo...@iecc.com> wrote: > > > >> [robert@dell64] ~> umount Flash > > >> umount: unmount of /home/robert/Flash failed: Device busy > > > > Try umount -f > > > > The problem is likely that HAL or one of its friends helpfully has the > > device open just in case you might want to ask questions about it. > > > > Regards, > > John Levine, jo...@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for > > Dummies", Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. > > http://jl.ly > > That works! > I did not have to do that before the recent updates to XFCE4 and Xorg > but as long as I can umount, I'm happy. > > Thank you John > > 'umount -f' is dangerous, while it worked in your case, truly, make sure you don't have any open files in the future, just to ensure no loss of files or filesytem corruption. -- Did you know... If you play a Windows 2000 CD backwards, you hear satanic messages, but what's worse is when you play it forward.... ...it installs Windows 2000 -- Alfred Perlstein on chat at freebsd.org _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
