Nick Kay wrote:
>
> At 07:36 19/04/99 -0400, you wrote:
> >April 19, 1999
> >
> >Good Morning to all,
> >
> >I have a problem unmounting CD-ROMs, floppy drives, samba mounts, etc.
> >When I umount anything it always tells me the device is busy, try later.'
> >
> >Is there a way to get around this??
> >
>
> Usually this is caused by a process running that requires the mount,
> most often (imho) it is bash because someone is logged and is sitting
> in a directory on the mounted device.
> Try "cd /", "umount /mnt/{whatever}"
>
> hih
> nick@nexnix
>
> >
> >Ken
> >
> >
I had this type of problem and then on one of the newsgroups someone
mentioned the "fuser" command. man fuser may shed some light. Here is
what I got after I started listening to an audio cd with the kscd
application. (this is run from an xterm)
---
[onion@localhost onion]$ /usr/sbin/fuser -v /dev/cdrom
USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
/dev/cdrom onion 900 f.... kscd
[onion@localhost onion]$
---
The complete pathname for fuser was used since /usr/sbin is not in the
"average" user's (onion, in this case) path. Having a musical cd-rom is
not likely to be the cause of the problem you're describing, but I think
the "fuser -v ...." will be useful to identify who/what's using the
particular device/file you're trying to "umount".
Hope this helps.
gerry
