[wellylug] Fam annoyance

[Daniel]

Just head on to "computer:///" in Nautilus and right click on the floppy 
and click umount volume. QED.

Daniel

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Sam Cannell wrote:
> Hey folks,
> 
> Does anyone have any idea to tell fam not to monitor a particular
> mountpoint?  Whenever I mount a floppy and access it through Nautilus,
> fam starts keeping an eye on it.  When I try to unmount it, it says
> the device is busy:
> 
> sam at arilou:~$ mount /media/floppy
> sam at arilou:~$ umount /media/floppy
> umount: /media/floppy: device is busy
> umount: /media/floppy: device is busy
> sam at arilou:~$ sudo fuser /media/floppy
> /media/floppy:        3431
> sam at arilou:~$ ps ax | grep 3431
>  3431 ?        Ss      0:00 /usr/sbin/famd -T 0
> sam at arilou:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/fam stop
> Stopping file alteration monitor: FAM.
> sam at arilou:~$ umount /media/floppy
> sam at arilou:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/fam start
> Starting file alteration monitor: FAM.
> sam at arilou:~$
> 
> I've had a look at the famd and fam.conf manpages, but all I can see
> is a -l option to tell it to ignore remote NFS servers, but nothing
> similar for removable media.
> 
> Anyone have any ideas?
> 
> Cheers,
> Sam
> 
> 
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