[ILUG] faq: how to umount a cdrom without rebooting?

Paul Mc Auley paul at novara.ie
Thu Nov 23 11:08:56 GMT 2006


On Thursday 23 November 2006 11:06, John A. Kinsella wrote:

> Usual kinda thing: Linux wont let me umount a cdrom - I've done a (lazy)
> umount -l but (of course) still cannot eject the cdrom.

> I want to use the drive.

> I dont want to reboot...

> I have read in info pages for umount.

> Any tips on how to find the process that is keeping the file system busy?

fuser -m /mnt/cdrom
	Paul



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