unmounting floppies

Alexander Dalloz ad+lists at uni-x.org
Tue Mar 1 22:29:01 UTC 2005


Am Di, den 01.03.2005 schrieb Gerhard Magnus um 23:02:

> I'm running FC3 with a KDE desktop.  Recently, I've been having problems
> unmounting floppy disks.  Regardless of whether I use the right mouse
> button on the "Floppy" icon to unmount the disk or use the command
> "umount /media/floppy" in a terminal window I get the message:
> "/media/floppy device is busy" twice.  (Why twice anyway?)  I've tried
> using the command "fuser /dev/fd0" to locate processes accessing the
> disk and this gives me a pid -- but when I try killing the process a new
> pid replaces it.  The only way out seems to be rebooting... which just
> doesn't seem right!
> 
> Is this a bug or something "hanging on" in my system?  Does anyone have
> a suggestion for troubleshooting this further? 

Would you mind to tell us which PID you are killing? I mean which
respawning service it is which's PID you kill.

Alexander


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