According to Anwar M. Haneef: While burning my CPU.
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> If the you got a device busy error, have you tried
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> umount -k /dev/hda
-k is not supported in most umount versions, at least i have never seen it.
However the most important point everybody is missing is, to u(n)mount a
device you have to STATE which device you want to "unmount" not just
/dev/hda you need to state which partition as well like /dev/hda1
umount /dev/hda1
Will unmount the first partition of the first Hardrive.
Device busy means that the person concerned did state the partition number
otherwise umount would have returned "/dev/hda: not mounted"
So he is sitting in a directory on that device which is mounted, so his
filesystem is "in use" or there are processes running which were started
from that device.
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> Regards,
> Anwar
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> On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, Bill Kocik wrote:
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> > > Trying to run e2fsck on /dev/hda but need to unmount it first, but how?
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> > > Already booted from startup diskette, but keep getting "device busy" error.
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> > umount /dev/hda
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> > Bill Kocik
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