-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On 15 Nov 1999, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> >>>>> "Dave" == Dave Wiard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > > Well, what do you mean by "activity"? There's a couple of reasons why > the kernel can consider a mount point busy. An obvious one is that a > process has a directory on the CD as its cwd. That could be a daemon > or a zombie, so you need not know about it. Maybe you should look in > the /proc hierarchy for clue the next time it happens. You can use the fuser command to determine which processes are using the device. This command should work, replacing /mnt/cdrom with the actual mountpoint: fuser -vm /mnt/cdrom - -- finger for PGP public key. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBODDa8r7M/9WKZLW5AQHYHgQAjzwz1l35EKRcpJu18COtUdTfIaGAL7aJ nz43g9LxA9aVpxXBH/Hmlqc/cfvsWFG6tCRtUUNWw+KIWB2huP/opiSq2pib3gB1 /AIXI0KsPRQCBufS9XRWWNNiQR33PxE38/e7j0klQ9DGWppk2WT7bNfJxdkVO/b/ CUn+EOMGbpI= =KBnT -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----