Re: cdrom does not un-mounts

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Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 01:29:54 -0400
To: Debian Users <debian-user@lists.debian.org>

On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 10:22:14AM +0530, J.S.Sahambi wrote:
> I am using Debian/sid. Some times when I mount a cdrom and try to
> unmount it immediately, it gives the following error on the terminal:
>
> umount: /cdrom: device is busy
> umount: /cdrom: device is busy
>
> But the fact is the cdrom is not being used by any of my terminals or
> programs (as I have not used the terminal or any program to browse or
> use the cdrom). The only way I have found to umount the cdrom in this
> case is to logout (or kill the xserver with ctrl-alt-backspace) and
> login are root or same user and unmount. Then the cdrom unmounts with
> out any problem.
>
> Can anybody shed some light on it.
>
> Thanks
> JSS
>
Hi J,
there ususaly is something using the cdrom, you just have to find out
what. The first thing is to make sure you are not in a subdirectory of
the cdrom. (/cdrom or /cdrom/file1, etc). Make sure there are no
programs 'viewing' the cdrom contents (like konquoror). the last option
is the use the 'lsof' program. lsof == ls of == list the open files.
it shows you the running programs and the files that they use.
I think something like:
lsof | grep cdrom
might be useful.
-Kev

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