On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 20:10, Marc Chamberlin <marc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Thanks Gert for your thoughts! No, once the drive changed states to being > read-only, after running my wine apps, the only recourse I have to getting > it going again is to reboot. I cannot dismount the drive as Linux continues > to believe some process is using it, even though I have killed all the > PortableApps processes and stopped the wine server itself. It is interesting losf should show you what else might be using it... (possibly some indexing crap...) umount -l almost always gets the job done... (umount -f might work as well...) You can try getting it read-write again by doing a "mount -O remount,rw"... Gert