Re: umount

[John Pearson <john@huiac.apana.org.au>]

On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 06:21:02PM -0500, matthschulz wrote
> On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> > >>>>> "Dave" == Dave Wiard <dave@lister.acm.wwu.edu> writes:
> > 
> > Dave> is there any way to force umount to unconditionally unmount a drive? one
> > Dave> of my cd drives is constantly touted as 'busy' when i know there's zero
> > Dave> activity, so it refuses to unmount and hence i cannot eject. any help
> > Dave> would be apreciated.
> 
> 
> The thing was happend to me was: (I know is stupid)
> 
> ~>
> ~>cd /mnt/cdrom
> /mnt/cdrom\>umount /mnt/cdrom
> umount: /mnt/cdrom: device is busy
> /mnt/cdrom\>
> 
> Then You are using this drive by yourself.
> 

Another thing to watch for is CD players; if I've got the
GNOME CD thingy on my panel, I can only eject CDs using the
*!&*? GNOME CD thingy eject button.


John P.
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