[NCLUG] umount cdrom when it says busy

Bryan Stillwell arcane at verinet.com
Tue Oct 10 17:09:03 MDT 2000


Hey Paul,

Try running 'fuser -m /mnt/cdrom' to find out which PIDs are using it.
Once you kill those processes you should be able to umount it.

Bryan

On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, paul hansen wrote:

> 
> Hey,
> 
> How can I force umount of /mnt/cdrom when it tells me the device is
> busy? No, I'm no longer in /mnt/cdrom. I remember someone showing me how
> to do something in /proc, but I can't remember what we did (2 years ago).
> 
> Also, umount -f doesn't work.
> 
> thanks,
> 
>    Paul
> 
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