On Wed, 03 May 2000, Shaggy Im-erbtham wrote about, floppy mount and unmount:
> I have a little problem. After a session mounting and
> unmounting floppies on a linux box, I would arrive at a
> vicious circle:
>
> command: mount /dev/fd0 /mnt
Firstly, save yourself a lot of typing, when one has a line regarding
/dev/fd0 (in this case) in /etc/fstab as in;
/dev/fd0 /floppy auto noauto,user 0 0
Then all ones needs to type is;
(u)mount /floppy
> response: /dev/fd0 already mounted or /mnt busy
> command: umount /mnt
> response: /mnt: not mounted
>
> How can I break this impasse? I know I could always
> reboot and things return to normal or mount on another
> directory. But short of those, can this unwanted
> symptom be removed?
>
What does the command "mount" return, if /dev/fd0 is not there its not
mounted, otherwise it is.
O and another thing, if one starts programs or daemons which then run in
the background from a window in that mounted directory then you will not be
able to umount any device.
If i remember correctly i had a discussion about that with Ray many moons
back, but i doubt if that is your problem.
> TIA
> Shaggy
>
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Regards Richard
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