Re: Debian 12.5 up-to-date Xfce, Firefox clings to USB stick
On Sat, Mar 30, 2024 at 1:19 PM gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> wrote:
>
> On 3/30/24 11:36, Antti-Pekka Känsälä wrote:
> > What could be the deal, when Firefox tries to stop me from unmounting a
> > stick, after I've accessed files on it through Firefox? I worry about
> > my stick security. Thanks.
>
> Since this is normally a root operation, I'm confused. Likely what it
> means is that you have an open write path from firefox to the stick that
> has not been properly closed. I get into a similar state working with
> u-sd's using mc to edit something I have used mc to cd to, and forget to
> cd back out of the u-sd before I eject the card to take it to its proper
> home in a pi clone. Possibly fixed by stopping firefox first?
The other thing I try with this is to run something like:
$ mount|grep sda2
The "sda2" can be replaced with whatever else is involved. That filters out a
hopefully small(er) list to show if something is unusually mounted. Running
"mount" alone opens up the whole list.
Going that route helped me in chroot a couple days ago. An unbelievable number
of /proc, /sys, /dev, and /dev/pts mount points appeared. I only manually
mounted them once each. Manually umount'ing each point until none were left
fixed whatever trouble that seemed to inflict on apt-get.
Cindy :)
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