Re: open files/ forcing dismount
On 25/02/14 14:58, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> On 2/25/14, Scott Ferguson <scott.ferguson.debian.user@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 25/02/14 14:21, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
>>> One long term "non-easy" issue that keeps coming up a few times a
>>> year, is attempting to dismount an external drive/usb stick and this
>>> failing due to a file being opened.
>>>
<snipped>
>>
>> Is that the process that shows how much space is available in the GNOME
>> file manager widget?
>
> No idea. I use the cmd line not a 'file manager'.
> $ ps aux|grep 10600
> justa 10600 0.0 0.0 132636 3704 ? Sl Feb24 0:00
> /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd-metadata
https://developer.gnome.org/gio/stable/GVolumeMonitor.html
I've got nothing.
I'm guessing you wouldn't have Tracker installed:-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MetaTracker
Nautilus? Perhaps they use the hooks from the gvfs-metadata?
> $ man gvfs-metadata
> No manual entry for gvfs-metadata
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/saucy/man1/gvfsd-metadata.1.html
>
>
>> You don't have your file manager attempting to display the contents of a
>> drive you simultaneously want to unmount (and therefore not display, or
>> it's free space) - do you?
>
> I'm pretty sure not: besides the panel and plugins (I know, dirty,
> dirty screen),
metho and a rag will fix that. ;)
> I run sensors viewer, firefox and some xterms. It's
> about as simple as it gets ('cept those dirty xfce4 panels!)
>
>> ps aux | grep -i gproxyvol
>
> Nope. Blank as it greps.
>
>
so maybe nothing is using it. Possibly?:-
# cp ~/.local/share/gvfs-metadata{,.bak}
# rm -rf ~/.local/share/gvfs-metadata
Kind regards
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