[TriLUG] unmounting cdrom

[M. Mueller/bhu5nji]

Sanjeev,

Here's my favorite reason for cdrom being busy when I try to umount it:

if I pwd I find that I am currently in /mnt/cdrom

Mike

On Monday 31 December 2001 02:25 pm, you wrote:
> I sometime have problem unmounting my CD.
>
> Computer tells me that the CD is busy.
> I don't see the busy light on the CD-ROM.
> I am not in the /mnt directory when I try to unmount.
> I use 'fuser -v /mnt/cdrom' to find the PID.
> The PID for the CD-ROM is: kernel
>
> How can I unmount CD-ROM without shutdown.
> Why is kernel busy reading my CD(if that is true).
> Why the PID is not a number?
>
> thanks,
> Sanjeev
>
>
>
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