umount problems

[Marcel Janssen]

On Sunday 27 June 2004 11:51, Christopher K. Johnson wrote:
> Marcel Janssen wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I'm using a usb disk which I currently can not unmount. I get "device
> > busy" messages although no process is using the disk (fuser doesn't show
> > anything).
> >
> >Anyway I can force an unmount ?
>
> The problem is probably fam.
> Try:
> killall -HUP fam
> Then unmount.

It wasn't fam.
The problem simply disappeared, after 10 minutes I could unmount. Strange, 
never seen this before. Must be something regarding the hotplug stuff I 
guess.

Thanks,
Marcel