-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Frank Ramsay hath spake thusly: > Everthing went fine until I tried to unmount it. It says the device is busy > and when I run fuser -v on it the device it says that mount is tieing the > device up. [SNIP] > data from of 'fuser -v /mnt/smedia' > USER PID ACCESS COMMAND > /mnt/smedia root kernel mount /mnt/smedia > > Now this doesn't make any sence to me, because the device sucessfully mounted > and i was able to copy my pictures off of it with no problem. This typically happens when a process you have running is accessing files somewhere in the filesystem. For example, I have my home directory on my laptop on the filesystem /users. If I run your command on that directory, I get the same results: [ddm@mercury ddm] $ fuser -v /users USER PID ACCESS COMMAND /users root kernel mount /users However, if I do the same command on my actual home directory, I get much different results: [ddm@mercury ddm] $ fuser -v /users/ddm USER PID ACCESS COMMAND /users/ddm ddm 958 ..c.. bash ddm 1000 ..c.. startx ddm 1007 ..c.. xinit [SNIP] If you actually want to see what processes have files open on a given mount point, use fuser -m instead: [ddm@mercury ddm] $ fuser -m /users /users: 958c 1000c 1007c 1017c 1042c 1056c 1058c 1078c 1080 1080c 1082c 1084c 1086c 1090c 1134c 1136c 1138c 1144 1144c 2174c 2176c 2222 2222c 2286c 2288 2288c 3308 3308c 3316 3316c 3317 3317c 3318 3318c 3394 3394c 3403c 3405c 3464 3464c The 'c' after a PID indicates that the process has its current working directory on that filesystem. PIDs without the 'c' indicate processes that have files open on that filesystem. Most likely, you didn't close the application that you used to access the device, or you had a shell with its CWD on that device. HTH - -- Derek D. Martin ddm@pizzashack.org PGP/GPG Key ID: 0x81CFE75D -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8nMZCdjdlQoHP510RAsSLAJ9ajfkrAxLxMuUY+Zkx2AJay1gizACfRTA+ z3+HBl5HAssHPcdWbvMefo0= =xAkk -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----