2013/3/18 STeve Andre' <and...@msu.edu>: > I've just run into something I can't explain. Likely it's not a > bug, but puzzling none the less. > > I normally run KDE, and then thunderbird, firefox and chrome > as well as a bunch of other stuff. Fine, mostly. > > I frequently mount a 32G usb stick to stuff my 'reagents' software > on, for keeping Windows sheep (mostly) safe. To do this I mount the > stick on /dos, and copy stuff to it. > > Only today and maybe a couple of other times, I finished copying > data to /dos and did umount /dos, and got a device busy message. > Only the one xterm touched /dos, from the mount, to the copy, to > the umount. Last time this happened I did a umount -f as I needed > the data. This time I went hunting and an fstat | grep doc revealed > that firefox had /dos? *I* didn't do anything. > > Any ideas as to whats going on, or things to check? I am puzzled.
Probably some time ago you saved something from FireFox directly to /dos (or subfolder of). Then FireFox remembered the last folder you were using, and open it on start. Save something to a different folder. Probably it's also a good idea to avoid asking about destination folder at all. I use this setting personally to avoid having a bunch of extra files spreading everywhere: things I really need gets moved somewhere else, and then I just wipe the directory (or rather use subdir in /tmp). -- WBR, Vadim Zhukov
