On Tue, Oct 07, 2014 at 06:46:17PM -0400, m.roth@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Fred Smith wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 07, 2014 at 06:19:00PM -0400, m.roth@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >> Fred Smith wrote:
> >> > I've got a usb HD mounted, and it has been mounted since the weekend,
> >> and has been kept busy during that period.
> >> >
> >> > now I"m done with it an want to umount it, but neither umount nor the
> >> > on-screen icon (when right-clicked) will let me do it:
> >> >
> >> > it is /dev/sdd1, mounted as /media/seagateusb. when root tries to
> >> > umount it we get this:
> >> <snip>
> >> It's under control of autofs. You can open the GUI file manager, and do
> >> a safely remove/eject.
> >>
> >> Or you can stop autofs for a minute, and then umount it.
> >
> > actually, no I can't. if I right-click on seagateusb and click unmount, I
> > get an error box saying "Unable to unmount seagateusb. Cannot unmount
> > because file system on device is busy."
> <snip>
> Ok, try lsof /media/seagateusb - that may tell you what's holding it.
>
> Did you try service autofs stop?
yes, made no difference.
another responder suggests it is journalling block device daemon/
thread/whatever holding the device. looking into that as we speak
Fred
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