how to unmount a 'busy' floppy?

Nick Austin nick at digitalpipe.net
Fri Nov 15 18:10:13 GMT 2002


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You can try running a command like "lsof +d /mnt/floppy" and that should
tell you what is using your floppy, then you can close the offending
tasks.

On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Jerome Yuzyk wrote:

>  
> I opened a bad floppy via the KDE 'floppy' icon on my desktop, and now I 
> can't unmount it because the 'device is busy'. How do I kill whatever is 
> making it busy and unmount it?
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