Re: unmounting cdrom drive

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam trinity edu>]

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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