Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3863 mails)

[C Hamel <vgm2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 22 February 2004 21:35, BandiPat wrote:
<SNIP> >
> > I really need to jump in, here & find out...
> > How do you get the card reader to umount?  Mine always reports itself
> > as busy. That goes for smbfs shares or whatever else I mount.  Only
> > one thing works: shutdown, remove the card reader, reboot.
> >
> > ...CH
>
> ==========
>
> CH,
>
> Sounds like you haven't been away from Windows very long, new to
> Linux?  ;o)
No... not really... I'm very new to SuSE, though. <G> I used to use Mandrake. 

>
> A few ways to accomplish this, the shell/konsole, right click on the
> icon, choose unmount.  If you get a busy message on the device, then
> open a shell, type:  lsof /dev/sdxx (your device ID)
I am familiar w/the right-clicked icon & 'unmount' but I was unaware of the 
command you specify.  Thanks. :-)
>
> That will tell you what process is tying up the device and at that
> point, just type:  kill <pid number>
> Then you should be able to easily unmount the device!  Reboots are for
> wimps & windows users, make the break, step out of line!  ;o)
>
I'm also familiar w/the 'ps aux' so that one can determine what process one 
wants to kill.  ...And you're correct.  Reboots *are* for those you outline. 
<LOL>

Thanks for the info! :-)
...CH