can't umount cdrom

ust · 11-06-2003, 05:52 AM

I have a cdrom mounted to /mnt/scd0 , but when umount it , it pop the message "device is busy" , how can I umount it ? thx.

slakmagik · 11-06-2003, 06:05 AM

Make sure no program has a file open from it, or no file manager is looking at it, or no term or xterm is in it. And make sure you haven't done an 'su' with the *parent* shell in it. Happened to me tonight - I was looking *everywhere* and couldn't find it. Finally hit exit in an xterm and saw my user prompt there.

lyx0m · 11-06-2003, 12:19 PM

hello
you can also do a fuser -k /dev/scd0 and it will kill the process which is using the cdrom, be sure it is not your self, otherwise your session will be killed.

lyx0m

ust · 11-06-2003, 08:06 PM

thx reply, i submit "fuser -k /dev/scd0 " or " lsof /dev/scd0 " , no any output , i check that it should no other system mounting it , can suggest what can i do? thx.

slakmagik · 11-06-2003, 08:34 PM

My post made no sense on re-reading the thread. Sorry, I don't know what the solution is.

ust · 11-07-2003, 02:23 AM

except reboot the server , can suggest what can i do ? thx in advance.

hiteshmaisheri · 11-07-2003, 02:28 AM

Just check out that any file or directory from the mounted cdrom is not accessed by any application.... If it's so then just close the application to umount the cdrom......