Unable to umount removable media: device busy

[Kevin Oberman]

> Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:55:49 +0400
> From: "R.Mahmatkhanov" <cvs-src at yandex.ru>
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> Dominique Goncalves пишет:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I use at home a Gnome desktop on FreeBSD 6.3 (ports last updated
> > before the devel/gettext update).
> > When I plug my removable HDD (USB Maxtor, 500Go formatted with fat32
> > filesystem), it is auto mounted. But I can't umount my HDD, it fails
> > with
> > 
> >>> umount: unmout of /media/disk failed: Device busy
> 
> I'm expecting the same problem but with winxp smb share.
> I can mount it there on RELENG_7 but cannot umount it
> with "Device busy". All my usb drives umount correct.
> 
> > 
> > I tried from the command line and right clicking the icon on the desktop.
> > All applications are closed.
> > What can I do to solve this problem?
> > 
> > Another question about my HDD, when I shutdown my computer, my HDD is
> > still turned on. This is not the case with Windows XP.
> > How to turn off the HDD when I shutdown my computer?
> > 
> > Let me know need if you need more information,
> > Thanks in advance.
> > Regards.
> > 

I've had that problem since the dawn of HAL. gam_server tends to keep it
open. If I wait a long time after the last access to the device, I think
gam gives up on monitoring it, but that may link to other things like the
number of directories it monitors.

Wish there was some way to tell gam to just let go of a device/directory
wot eh unmount would always work.
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R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
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