Can't cleanly umount a usb stick
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. Thanks, STeve Andre'
Re: Can't cleanly umount a usb stick
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
Re: Can't cleanly umount a usb stick
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'
