On 03/18/13 05:44, Vadim Zhukov wrote:
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
Well, thank you! I may well have done that, saving to /dos.
That certainly would explain it. Thanks again.
--STeve Andre'