Nick Rout wrote:
reinstalling another distro every time something doesn't qute work as expected is *not* the answer IMHO. In fact is a very windows-like approach (reboot it to fix it, reinstall the whole OS to fix one faulty program,etc ,etc.)I know that some people like to have half a dozen half installed, half maintained distros lying about on their hard drive, but (again IMHO) that is no substitute for learning why something is not doing the "expected" thing and fixing it.
Thank you, Nick. My sentiment exactly. This used to work, it doesn't now. First, I want to get a grip on why it won't unmount.
I just had a limited success - when I went:
cd /media/removable/usb lsof | grep usb
I could see that bash, lsof, grep, and lsof again are accessing /media/removable/usb. Now I go:
cd ~ lsof | grep usb
And the lsof entries go away, but /etc/mtab still shows that the drive is mounted.
umount /media/removable/usb
Responds that the "device is busy", which would explain why automount won't unmount it. Yet lsof reports nothing.
How do I find out why the "device is busy"?
Back to Douglas, why do you expect it to unmount just cos nothing is
using it? i don't know if that is what is expected, but correct me if i
am wrong.
My /etc/auto.master contains the line:
/media/removable /etc/auto.removable --timeout=2
which means that 2 seconds after the last file or whatever is closed on the drive, automount will unmount it. Or rather, used to.
On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 13:39:39 +1300 Rik Tindall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Sounds like a reinstall with Ubuntu is simplest. Would this present any problems Douglas?
So far I've installed Mdk 9.2, Mdk 10.0, and Debian Unstable. I'm getting tired of changing. The excitement about Ubuntu only started after I'd installed Debian. I think now that it would have been a good choice for a relative newbie. All I want to achieve from this thread, however, is a little trouble-shooting of automount!
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