Re: unmounting cdrom drive

From: Aaron Konstam (akonstam_at_trinity.edu)
Date: 04/14/04

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    On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 09:03:05PM -0400, Joe Duke wrote:
    > The only thing, off the top of my head, what directory are you in when you
    > enter the 'umount' command? If /mnt/cdrom is your working directory you
    > will receive the device busy error.
    >
    >
    > ----- Original Message -----
    > From: "Anthony Thompson" <at1971@ozemail.com.au>
    > To: <fedora-list@redhat.com>
    > Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 8:45 PM
    > Subject: unmounting cdrom drive
    >
    >
    > > I have just made the change from Mandrake to Fedora Core 1 and Im having
    > > problems unmounting cdrom drive.
    > > Everytime i attempt to umount /mnt/cdrom or eject I get the error "cdrom
    > > busy".
    > >
    > > I am well aware this normally occurs if you are still using the cdrom
    > > drive. I spent 30mins browsing the fedora list archives but was able to
    > > get any ideas/solutions..
    > >
    > > I just using the standard Fedora kernel with all updates..
    > > I never had this problem with Mandrake so I know the hardware..etc is
    > > working fine..
    > >
    > > Any ideas what is causing this problem??
    > >
    > >
    > > Regards
    > > Anthony
    Have you tried fuser to see what process is using /mnt/cdrom? 

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