[Courses] mounting floppy

Maria McKinley parody at u.washington.edu
Wed Aug 4 12:03:18 EST 2004


It looks like you are in the directory you are trying to umount.  Try 
"cd /" and then try umounting again.

maria

Mag Mu wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> After mounting my floppy, I wrote a test file.  Now I
> cannot umount /mymount/ even after removing the file. 
> Also, nothing was actually written to the physical
> disk.  
> 
> So, 2 questions:
> 1.  When is data actually written to the physical
> disk?
> 
> 2.  How do I unmount the floppy?
> 
> Thanks!!
> 
> Here is a transcript of what I did:
> [root at localhost mymount]# mount -t vfat /dev/fd0
> /mymount/
> 
> [root at localhost mymount]# vi test
> 
> [root at localhost mymount]# ls
> test
> 
> [root at localhost mymount]# umount /mymount/
> umount: /mymount: device is busy
> 
> [root at localhost mymount]# rm test
> rm: remove regular file `test'? y
> 
> [root at localhost mymount]# ls -l
> total 0
> 
> [root at localhost mymount]# umount /mymount
> umount: /mymount: device is busy
> 
> [root at localhost mymount]# ls -l
> total 0
> 
> 
> 
> 
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