[ale] unmount problem

[Jerald Sheets]

Also, don't be in a terminal session and cwd'd onto the drive.  You would
be the issue.  Jim's suggestion is the best, though.  Look for open files
on the volume with lsof

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Jerald M. Sheets jr.



On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 3:45 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> lsof | grep <path to mounted thumbdrive>
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>
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> On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 3:38 PM, Sean Kilpatrick <kilpatms at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>>  If I plug a thumb drive into a usb port, I can open it and manipulate
>> files without a problem.
>>
>> BUT . . . .
>>
>> when I try to unmount the thing, I am told that another program has
>> opened a file on the drive and the OS refuses to unmount the damn thing.
>>
>> I can not, for the life of me, figure out WHICH piece of software is the
>> problem. Right now, to guarantee safety, I am rebooting to unmount the
>> thumb drive. There must be a better way! I thought dropbox might be the
>> grimlin, but that's not it.
>>
>> I have looked in /var/log/messages and used ps and top to no avail.
>>
>> Clues would be appreciated.
>>
>> Sean
>>
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