floppy behaviour

[Norman Silverstone]

On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 23:13 +0930, squareyes wrote:
> Hi all,
> am  able to mount floppy as user from terminal
> mount  /media/floppy , and umount  OK,
> but if I do the same from  Computer>Disks -  Floppy,
> it will mount and open contents OK, but will not
> unmount after I have closed the floppy folder. Says floppy is busy.
> Tried from terminal as user and as root to umount, same result  floppy 
> is busy.
> Looked at man umount, have tried the -f option with umount, same  floppy 
> is busy.
> Any ideas as to what I am doing wrong, am using Warty.
> Thanks in advance,
> Take Care
> Winton

Presumably you have a floppy icon on the desktop. If so, have you tried
right click on the icon and select Unmount?

Norman