Re: mount-umount

From: NBK (NBK_at_none.net)
Date: 12/29/03 

Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 23:38:19 GMT

SrBueno wrote:
> Joseph wrote:
>
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>>On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 11:24:20 +0000, ivan danicic wrote:
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>>>Hello all, quite often I find that I cannot umount some periferal, I get
>>>the message "device is busy". Usually I can't do anything about that; my
>>>current directory is not on the mounted thing and it is in fact not busy
>>>as far as I can see. Any comments gratefully received.
>>>Ivan.
>>
>>If a file is even on a file manager...it is "busy".
>>
>>It can't be doing "anything"...not even being displayed on a file manager
>>window.
>>
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>
> Ref: 'man lsof' (LiSt Open Files)
>
try #umount -l /mnt/cdrom
NBK