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unmounting a USB disk
Sometimes a user has cd'ed to a USB disk and then if someone else tries to unmount the disk they will get this message:
The solution is to find the offending process and kill it cold. If the disk is labeled '120514a' then the steps are:
lsof | grep 120514a
you might see something like this
bash 8367 dgs cwd DIR 8,49 20480 61341743 /media/120514a/user/cs
you can now kill this process as
kill -9 8367
and then you can do
umount /media/120514a