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unmounting a floppy (moronic newbie question)
- From: Peter Evans <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 12:18:31 +0900
- Message-id: <3EEFDA07.9070008@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Boy, learning Linux is fun. Today I used (copied from) a floppy for the
second time! Took me all of ten minutes with CP/M, but with Linux. . . .
mount tells me (inter alia):
/dev/fd0 on /media/floppy type vfat (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,sync,user=peter)
Having copied from it, I no longer want it. I'm not using it (as far as I know, and I've thought about this for some time).
peter@linux:~> umount /dev/fd0
brings me the message
umount: /media/floppy: device is busy
Can I just ignore this and take the silly thing out before it fries? (I'd like to return it to its owner.)
(Yes, I have attempted to look in the user guide, the unofficial FAQ, and one O'Reilly book about Linux to see how a diskette can be busy when it appears not to be in use -- no results.)
mount tells me (inter alia):
/dev/fd0 on /media/floppy type vfat (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,sync,user=peter)
Having copied from it, I no longer want it. I'm not using it (as far as I know, and I've thought about this for some time).
peter@linux:~> umount /dev/fd0
brings me the message
umount: /media/floppy: device is busy
Can I just ignore this and take the silly thing out before it fries? (I'd like to return it to its owner.)
(Yes, I have attempted to look in the user guide, the unofficial FAQ, and one O'Reilly book about Linux to see how a diskette can be busy when it appears not to be in use -- no results.)
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