unremovable drives

[Walter Dnes]

On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 02:01:30AM -0400, David J Patrick wrote

> Exciting, but there are no processes listed after this command!
> and yet, immediately afterwards;
> [root at localhost djp]# rmdir -v /mnt/removable3/
> rmdir: removing directory, /mnt/removable3/
> rmdir: `/mnt/removable3/': Device or resource busy

  Shouldn't you

umount removable3

or whatever the drive is called, before removing the associated
directory?

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