Are RWs a problem?

[alan]

On Tue, 4 Apr 2006, Anne Wilson wrote:

> On Tuesday 04 April 2006 18:54, Matt Arnilo S. Baluyos (Mailing Lists) wrote:
>
>> Error trying to open /dev/hdd exclusively ... retrying in 1 second.
>
> There may be other problems, but this one suggests that something, probably
> automount, is grabbing the device.  Make sure you have closed any file
> manager windows, and if a device icon has come onto the desktop, use it to
> umount the device.

Run lsof and see what has that device open/mounted.

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