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Question reformatting a floppy!

i am trying to reformat a floppy i am using solaris 9 when i run this:

rmformat -F quick /vol/dev/aliases/floppy0

it tells me that it cannot perform the operation on a mounted device.

how do i unmount the device and format the floppy?
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Try using the -U option with that...

-U Perform umount on any file systems and then formats.
See mount(1M). This option unmounts all the mounted
slices and issues a long format on the device
requested.
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