Re: umount impossible - device busy

  • From: <tpgww@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: emelfm2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 20:13:14 +1000

On Wed, 5 Sep 2007 11:03:05 +0200
Grégory SCHMITT <gy.schmitt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> > Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 11:12:01 +1000
> > De: <tpgww@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > À: emelfm2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Sujet: Re: umount impossible - device busy
> 
> > Nothing obviously hanging around afterward. Could there be some sort
> > of write-cacheing happening ? What happens if the unmount is delayed
> > awhile ?
> 
> It doesn't help. I can wait for 10 mn, it won't unmount.
>  
> > What happens if you rename an item already on the mounted device, or
> > change some other file property there ?
> 
> File renaming is OK; device was unmounted on the spot.
> 
> > Might be file-alteration monitoring, instead of an open file ?

Change the displayed directory so that the destination disk is no longer shown 
- that would cancel any monitoring there. Then try to unmount.


> I thought it could be that; I have emelfm2 from the Fedora rpm). As
> soon as emelfm2 can be compiled from svn (it didn't work with rel.
> 634), I'll try to get a build with inotify, dnotify, gamin and fam.
> I'll also check my kernel config since I'm running on a home-made
> kernel.
All svn files now current, except the crypt plugin, (which won't be built 
anyway because it's in the wrong directory)

Regards
Tom


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