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Date:      Mon, 22 Jan 2001 22:31:28 -0500
From:      "Matthew Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca>
To:        "Eric Masson" <e-masson@kisoft-services.com>, "Roger Merritt" <mcrogerm@stjohn.ac.th>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: cd9660: device busy
Message-ID:  <006301c084ec$fb832c80$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca>
References:  <3.0.6.32.20010122073431.00815e20@stjohn.stjohn.ac.th> <3.0.6.32.20010122073431.00815e20@stjohn.stjohn.ac.th> <3.0.6.32.20010123074543.007be640@stjohn.stjohn.ac.th>

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> At 14:53 22-01-01 +0100, you wrote:
> >>>>>> "Roger" == Roger Merritt <mcrogerm@stjohn.ac.th> writes:
> >
> >    Roger> I've tried the commands mount /cdrom mount -t cd9660
/dev/acd0c
> >    Roger> /cdrom mount_cd9660 /dev/acd0c /cdrom
> >
> >    Roger> All with the same result: device busy.
> >
> >fstat | grep acd0 will give you the process that holds the cdrom, stop it
> >and then mount the cdrom
> >
> >Eric Masson
> >--
> >Progress (n) : What led from smart users in front of dumb terminals to
> >dumb users in front of smart terminals.
> >
>
> Thanks for the suggestion, but it doesn't help. No process is shown as
> using the cdrom. I've tried iostat and pstat, too, without success.

This may seem silly (and I haven't seen the whole thread), but are you sure
that /dev/acd0c isn't mounted?  If it is and the process that automounted it
has died (/stand/sysinstall is known to do this) then try a umount -f
/dev/acd0c, and then try mounting the CD again.

--
Matt Emmerton



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