Greetings and - APPRECIATE!! The -u flag on exportfs got by me. I must be older than I think /or/ need new specs.. :^)...
Thanks again, Hal On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 08:41:05AM -0700, Ray Olszewski wrote: > You are having this problem because after the the NFS access, the drive > remains exported, thus in use by (I think) nfsd, thus "busy". You need to > unexport it before umount'ing it. See the man page for "exportfs" for the > details. > > At 11:02 AM 7/5/02 -0400, Hal MacArgle wrote: > >Greetings: Have an internal ZIP250 ATAPI drive working well as > >/dev/sda4, mounted on an empty directory - /zip, disks formatted as > >ext2 fs. > > > >Everything normal and good except for one small problem: Once mounted > >and files transferred to it via NFS - I cannot umount it - "drive > >busy." /etc/mtab looks good and I can change the drives rw to ro but > >still no umounting.. Only way, so far, is to reboot the machine, to > >be able to remove the disk.. (This does not happen with normal file > >managing in the same machine - only after a NFS transfer.) > > > >Reading man umount I gather that _something_ is open but what? ps x > >or ps -A doesn't give an obvious clue.. Using iOmegas 'iw' programs' > >-u flag returns same "busy" report.. > > > >Invoking rmmod - ide-scsi, smc-ultra, 8390, nfsd - all modules > >involved return "busy." > > > >Any suggestions?? TIA. > > -- > -----------------------------------------------"Never tell me the > odds!"-------------- > Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo > Palo Alto, California, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
