Unable to umount removable media: device busy

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 15:02 +0200, Dominique Goncalves wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I use at home a Gnome desktop on FreeBSD 6.3 (ports last updated
> before the devel/gettext update).
> When I plug my removable HDD (USB Maxtor, 500Go formatted with fat32
> filesystem), it is auto mounted. But I can't umount my HDD, it fails
> with
> 
> >> umount: unmout of /media/disk failed: Device busy
> 
> I tried from the command line and right clicking the icon on the desktop.
> All applications are closed.
> What can I do to solve this problem?

As others have said, this may be fam/gamin related.  You could try
running lsof on your volume to see what is actually holding it open.

> 
> Another question about my HDD, when I shutdown my computer, my HDD is
> still turned on. This is not the case with Windows XP.
> How to turn off the HDD when I shutdown my computer?

I don't see how this is GNOME or even FreeBSD-related.  If the computer
is powered off, the peripherals should be shutoff unless the computer
provides power through the USB ports even when the CPU is off.

Maybe XP is sending some shutdown signal to the drive...

Joe

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