umount device busy
Waitman Gobble
gobble.wa at gmail.com
Sun Jun 3 20:01:44 UTC 2012
On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 7:59 AM, Gary Aitken <freebsd at dreamchaser.org> wrote:
> Something I'm overlooking here and a lot of questions I can't seem to find
> the answers to...
>
> I mounted a usb drive
> mount -t ntfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt/goflex
>
> Then, as nearly as I can remember...
> I then poked around a bit using the xfce4 browser.
> I tried to mkdir from the mount point as a normal user:
> cd /mnt/goflex
> %mkdir breakaway
> mkdir: .: No such file or directory
> After checking write premissions, which I didn't have,
> I did an su -l and tried again, with the same results.
>
> I then tried to unmount the drive, believing it was mounted read-only:
> #umount /mnt/goflex
> umount: unmount of /mnt/goflex failed: Device busy
>
> As nearly as I can tell, I don't have anything pointing at that drive.
>
> Questions:
>
> 1. What does the "No such file or directory" mean from mkdir?
> It's a relative dir name, and I'm sitting at a valid dir.
>
> 2. How do I find out how the file-system was mounted?
> mount (noargs) does not show read/write status
>
> 3. I tried lsof but I don't get any output from it:
> lsof +d /mnt/goflex -x -- /mnt/goflex
> Where does it go if not to stdout?
>
> 4. lsof has a *long* man page, so I'd like to save it temporarily so I
> can search it in an editor. If I do man lsof >temp.tmp the output contains
> backspace sequences which screw up searching. How do I get man to produce
> plain text without the control sequences?
>
> 5. The lsof man page references a faq which is supposed to be part of the
> distribution.
> find . -ls | grep lsof doesn't show any faq.
>
> 6. And finally, any idea why umount says the device is busy?
>
> Seems like I should have been able to find the answer to at least one of
> those but I'm coming up short.
>
> Thanks for relevant pointers,
>
> Gary
> _______________________________________________
> freebsd-questions at freebsd.org mailing list
> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions
> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "
> freebsd-questions-unsubscribe at freebsd.org"
>
something that *might* be helpful to you, it's a basic little man page
browser in Qt
left side of the pane shows a treeview of filesystem, so you can navigate
/bin, /usr/bin, etc.. when you click on a file it looks for the
corresponding man page and shows it on the right pane formatted html, which
is a webkit panel.
https://github.com/creamy/man-browser
i built it on a FreeBSD machine but it also works with cygwin systems and
probably GNU/Linux as well but i have not tried it.
it is intended as a way to quickly look at what's installed on your system
and possibly 'discover' and learn about previously 'unknown' commands.
Waitman Gobble
San Jose California USA
More information about the freebsd-questions
mailing list