Re: USB cf reader problem unmounting

[Richard Welty <rwelty averillpark net>]

On Thu, 04 Mar 2004 01:15:57 -0500 Erik Hemdal <ehemdal townisp com> wrote:


> > 
> > Message: 15
> > Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 17:51:29 -0500
> > From: Keven Ring <keven mitre org>
> > To: fedora-list redhat com
> > Subject: Re: USB cf reader problem unmounting
> > Reply-To: fedora-list redhat com
> > 
> > Polashek, Matthew wrote:

> > >/mnt/flash: device is busy

> > >Any idea why I might be getting this error?

>  I sometimes run into this error when unmounting floppies, and a lazy
> unmount (umount -l) does the job.  I think it has to do with delays in
> flushing buffers to disk, but this is just a guess.  Sometimes this is
> needed, other times not.  Perhaps this will help you out?

the dumb, traditional answer to this question is with another question:
do you have /mnt/flash/<mumble> as your current working directory
in a shell someplace?

richard
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