A little heavy handedness might be in order, and this solution is overkill, but you might want to log out then log in again before attempting to umount the drive. You may have a shell that has a current working directory on the drive you are trying to umount. Logging out will more often than not clear out programs that might be accessing the drive (not just the ones that you think are accessing it). This -should- help you umount the drive properly now.
On 3/6/07, Roberto Verzola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
This is a recurring problem for me. Sometimes, a usb drive refuses to be unmounted. I would close all files on the drive and other programs I know are accessing the drive, and I'd still get a "drive busy" message if I unmount it, even if I type "sync" several times on the command line. So I end up pulling out a USB stick that was not properly unmounted.
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