how to unmount a 'busy' floppy?

[Robert Black Eagle]

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I had the same problem recently.  'ps -e" showed nothing.  Neither did 
lsof +d /mnt/floppy (which I also tried).  I gave up, removed a disk 
that was in the floppy and rebooted.  Not the most elegant solution, 
but it worked.

On Friday 15 November 2002 3:11 pm, Jerome Yuzyk wrote:
> 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?

- -- 
Robert Black Eagle	
Linux for stability; GPG for security
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