RE: USB cf reader problem unmounting

["Polashek, Matthew" <Matthew Polashek scottforesman com>]

Oh.. I see what you mean.  No nothing that I am aware of is accessing the cf
card or it's subsequent directories at the time of this error though I
haven't used the 'pwd' command.

Matthew Polashek
Associate Editor, Silver Burdett Ginn - Music
Scott Foresman/Pearson Education
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Parsippany, NJ 07054-0480
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Matthew Polashek scottforesman com


> ----------
> From: 	Richard Welty
> Reply To: 	fedora-list redhat com
> Sent: 	Thursday, March 4, 2004 10:23 AM
> To: 	fedora-list redhat com
> Subject: 	Re: USB cf reader problem unmounting
> 
> On Thu, 04 Mar 2004 10:06:05 -0500 "Polashek, Matthew"
> <Matthew Polashek scottforesman com> wrote:
> 
> > yep.  I can cd into it.
> 
> i think you missed my point.
> 
> if you have /mnt/flash/whatever currently set as a working
> directory anywhere at all, you will be unable to unmount
> /mnt/flash
> 
> likewise, if a program has anything in it open for reading or
> writing, you will be unable to unmount it.
> 
> the -l flag that another poster mentioned simply allows umount
> to go to completion, doing everything that it can. it will not
> be an immediate, complete unmount if the device is busy.
> you need to figure out why the device is busy. look at what
> programs you're running, go to all your shell windows and
> 'pwd'
> 
> richard
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