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

[Cian Cullinan]

On 11/23/06, John A. Kinsella <John.Kinsella at ul.ie> wrote:
> Hi.
> 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?
>


Try something like the following to get a list of processes accessing
files on the device:

fuser -m /dev/cdrom

Cian