hmm, on Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 12:58:42AM -0400, Brynet said that > I've never had this problem before.. but according to the man page, > you can forcefully remove the mount using.. your signature.. '-f'. > > If this fails, unplug the USB cable or power down the drive.. > detaching it from the system.
this is definitely a possibility. i will try forcing umounting and if it doesn't work, i will just sync, sync, sync and remove the usb key -- openbsd will handle it well. but i hoped there is a way to see what is going on, that the kernel thinks some process is still accessing the device. i am not on windows after all, unix has superb diagnostic tools to peek under the cover. -f -- incipit vita nova.
