[NCLUG] umount cdrom when it says busy

Quent quent at pobox.com
Tue Oct 10 21:05:45 MDT 2000


Also, "lsof" is a pretty handy tool.

	Quent

On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 05:09:03PM -0600, Bryan Stillwell wrote:
> 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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