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Old 04-22-2003, 06:02 AM   #1
Tommi
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Mounting and unmounting in redhat.


Yo!

I have been using linux now for two weeks and noticed that using floppys and cdroms is totally different compared to Windows.

Well...it often happens that I cannot unmount if device is busy. Dispite I switch off nautilus and move away from /mnt/cdrom the device may still be busy.

How to kill all actions related to this busy device? I tried:
$ umount --force /mnt/cdrom

but it didnt help. It claimed something about illegal action. :-)

Please help. Sometimes I really can mess with umounts and mounts and I need to reboot whole system to make it work. This is truly "Code 18" so please advice newbie.

-Tommi
 
Old 04-22-2003, 06:29 AM   #2
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try "fuser /mnt/cdrom" to find out what's using the device and address it accordingly. wouldn't you just love to be able to remove the disc anyway and crash your system like windows ... that'd be great!
 
Old 04-22-2003, 07:05 AM   #3
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I see and understand this very well. Unix is more complex to use than windows...its much more manual but that it is why it works.

I wonder how stable is Mac OSX? That should be userfriendly unix...but is it stable anymore?

After I have found the reason for busy device I just kill it then?

-Tommi
 
Old 04-22-2003, 07:08 AM   #4
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thanks Chris for a light speed response! :-)

-Tommi
 
  


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