[PLUG] Cannot umount USB

Paul Heinlein heinlein at madboa.com
Wed Mar 2 18:03:11 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Jon Bridenbaugh wrote:

> I'm on SUSE 9.2 Pro.  The USB memory stick is no longer attached to the
> machine.
>
> Device shows up as:  /media/usb-storage-0000185073:0:0:0p1
>
> When I run `umount /media/usb-storage-0000185073:0:0:0p1` I get the
> following:
>
> umount: /media/usb-storage-0000185073:0:0:0p1: device is busy
> umount: /media/usb-storage-0000185073:0:0:0p1: device is busy
> umount: /media/usb-storage-0000185073:0:0:0p1: device is busy
> umount: /media/usb-storage-0000185073:0:0:0p1: device is busy

Try using lsof to see if any processes have open file descriptors on 
those devices:

   lsof | grep ^/media

--Paul Heinlein <heinlein at madboa.com>



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