Unable to umount

Tim Dunphy bluethundr at gmail.com
Sat Mar 12 20:15:32 UTC 2011


> [robert at dell64] ~> umount Flash
> umount: unmount of /home/robert/Flash failed: Device busy
> [robert at dell64] ~> umount /dev/da6s1
>umount: unmount of /home/robert/Flash failed: Device busy


have you tried lazy unmount?

umount -l /dev/da6s1

if you have root access you should su/sudo to that before trying this command.

regards,
tim

On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Chris Brennan <xaero at xaerolimit.net> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Robert <traveling08 at cox.net> wrote:
>
> Thank you for the reply. As shown above, I mounted the drive and then
>>  tried to umount the drive. I did not access it other than the "ls"
>> command.
>>
>> [robert at dell64] ~> lsof Flash
>> [robert at dell64] ~> lsof /dev/da6s1
>> [robert at dell64] ~>
>> [robert at dell64] ~> umount Flash
>> umount: unmount of /home/robert/Flash failed: Device busy
>> [robert at dell64] ~> umount /dev/da6s1
>> umount: unmount of /home/robert/Flash failed: Device busy
>> [robert at dell64] ~>
>>
>
>
> For shgiggles, try and umount it as root, does that actually work?
>
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