how to unmount a 'busy' floppy?

Jerome Yuzyk jerome at supernet.ab.ca
Fri Nov 15 21:11:11 GMT 2002


Thanks. I tried it and it returns nothing. Grrr.... Other ideas?

On Friday 15 November 2002 11:10 am, Nick Austin wrote:
> 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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