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shuiend:
i have a cd in my cd-drive which is mounted as /mnt/cdrom1. i now want to unmount the cd but it wont let me. It gives me the following error "umount: /mnt/cdrom1: device is busy". I do not know of anything tyhat is useing the cd right now but i dont know how to check either. i have tried unmounting from the command prompt and from the GUI with no succes. i have also logged on as root and tryed and gotten the same error. i would like not to have to restart just to fix this problem but i might just have to.

[ November 05, 2002: Message edited by: wild_jester / BOB ]

distortion:
probably a dumb question, but were you in the /mnt/cdrom1 directory when you were trying to unmount it? if so, thats your problem...

shuiend:
i was not in the /mnt/cdrom1 directory when i tried to unmount it.i eventually restarted the comp b/c of that and some over reasons

flap:
To find out what processes are using a file use fuser. To query a specific mounted file system use the -m option e.g.

fuser -m /mnt/cdrom1

mobrien_12:
Do you have the automounter running and configured to automount the CDROM drive?  If so, you have to leave it alone for a little while before the automounter will release it.

Automounter ... bleah  

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