At 08:26 AM 5/25/2005, fluid wrote: >most of the gui file managers will leave devices open by some process. > >use the fuser command to determine what process id you can kill to be >able to unmount your device :) I am not really familar with these commands (maybe why I use the GUI!). I just spent one year on Unix, Solaris 3 ii '93.... I did a man fuser then tried: fuser /media/floppy and got an empty list back.