Hi all,

I am trying to unmount the CD that is in my cd drive and when I type: umount /mnt/cdrom (which is the mount point), I get an error saying the device is busy. How can I unmount this? Thx

Chris

Try closing the shell window and opening a new shell. Works for me. Not sure why we get the error though.

And umount the device, not the mount point like so..

umount /dev/cdrom

No shell "window" to close. This is all command line, run level 3. I'll try to unmount the device itself... Thx

Chris

PS. That didn't work either. How can I forcably eject the CD anyway? Pressing the button on the drive don't work.

Assuming your CDROM has an fstab entry it doesn't matter whether you use the device or the mount point.

The umount command will fail if any process is using the device. i.e. if your shell is viewing the contents of the cdrom.

If you are presently viewing the contents of the CDROM just cd to another directory and then unmount.

Did you make sure that your 'present working directory' is not /mnt/cdrom?

You can't umount it if you are in it.

Just type in 'cd' to go to your home directory and try it again.

(Maybe you already tried this, but you didn't specify in your post.)

Sorry, you're right. I didn't previously post it, but I tried that. I am in / and I still can't unmount it.

Chris

Have you looked through 'ps -A', or someplace, to see if a some process might be running that's keeping the thing busy?

I guess you could jab a big paper clip into the little hole in the front and force it out.

What kind of stuff were you doing? If you look a couple of threads down the samething happened to another person who is also using RH 8.

Might want to try rebooting.

I had to reboot a few hours ago when this happened, and I just don't like the idea of having to do that every time I use a CD. All I did from the CD was install the RPM for sendmail. I have checked with ps -ef | more and don't see anything still accessing it. I'll look at the other post, but does anyone else have any suggestions? These are all good thoughts and should be working, but they are not. Damn RH! Argh!

Chris

PS. I read the other post. Nothing new unfortunately, and didn't help. I'm just gonna reboot this thing, argh... Thanks guys

Grab a copy of lsof and then try using
Be sure to check both the device node and the mount point.
I was having trouble because it wouldn't unmount under KDE.
I found the solution while using /mnt/cdrom as <device>

The second column is the PID of the offending process.