[NTLUG:Discuss] Invisible File

Tom Tumelty tomtumelty at gmail.com
Tue Dec 6 15:54:58 CST 2005


On 12/6/05, Terry <trryhend at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tuesday 06 December 2005 12:16 pm, you wrote:
> > I have tried both ways, unmounting and removing the
> > floppy and just removing the floppy and taking to the
> > other machine. The file is still invisible.
> >
> > Every time i try to unmount the flash drive it tells
> > me "device is busy"
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Tom
> >
>
> The "device is busy" error usually indicates that you have an application
> still utilizing the data on the disk.
>
> If you are working from the command line,
> It is also important to note that if you cd to the device's mount point,
> you
> will need to cd back out of it before you can  umount the device, (or you
> will get "device is busy" error.
>
>
>

Thank You, I did not realize that I had to cd back out from the device mount
point.
Although, I usually use xfce and mount or unmount from the file manager.
recently xfce quit working and i am using kde until i get time to reinstall.
I still get this error when i try to unmount from the file manager .



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