Ian Weller’s free software blog » linux http://ianweller.org Tue, 27 Jul 2010 19:46:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 How to umount when the device is busy http://ianweller.org/2008/08/24/how-to-umount-when-the-device-is-busy/ http://ianweller.org/2008/08/24/how-to-umount-when-the-device-is-busy/#comments Sun, 24 Aug 2008 01:40:00 +0000 Ian Weller http://ianweller.org/?p=270 Donncha O Caoimh brings us a way to unmount a device when it’s busy. I wish I had this long ago.

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This is quite interesting, and in my opinion, proves the spirit of open source. ;)

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