David....because you still have at least one open file in the mounted
partition, close it/them and the device busy message will no longer
occur when you attempt to do a umount.
Alan
David Loke wrote:
>
> Hi Thanks a lot. It works for me. However when I want to umount it, it
> always says that the device is busy. Why is that so?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan Shoemaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Thursday, November 25, 1999 1:16 PM
> Subject: Re: [newbie] Retriving files in windoze via Linux
>
> >David....here's one way how (as root):
> >
> >1. create a new subdirectory /mnt/c-drive
> >2. add the below line to your /etc/fstab file
> >
> >/dev/hdXY /mnt/c-drive vfat noauto,user
> >0 0
> >
> >(hdX must be the windows drive and Y is the partition number)
> >
> >3. in the console mode type: mount -t vfat /dev/hdXY /mnt/c-drive
> >
> >Alan
> >
> >
> >David Loke wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I read on Linux Mandrake website that its possible to get files from my
> >> windoze partition from Linux . How can I do that? I am not able to see my
> >> windoze directories from Linux file manager. What kind of software should
> I
> >> use?
> >>
> >> Rgds
> >
