Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 13:32:08 -0500 From: Eric Crist <ecrist@secure-computing.net> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unable to umount Cdrom drive. Message-ID: <30A6E9EC-1D46-11D9-8BCD-000D9333E43C@secure-computing.net> In-Reply-To: <20041013182926.GA43208@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <1097691732.126E39B5@j29.dngr.org> <20041013182926.GA43208@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
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--Apple-Mail-2--873955692 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed On Oct 13, 2004, at 1:29 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 11:22:12AM -0700, Laszlo Antal wrote: > >> When I mount the cdrom with #mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0c /cdrom > > Verb. Sap. Make that: > > # mount -t cd9660 -o ro /dev/acd0c /cdrom > > For best results, set up all of the options etc. in /etc/fstab, and > then just use: > > # mount /cdrom > >> everything works fine.I can get to my ports and everything >> But when I want to swap cds and I type #umount /cdrom >> I get this error message:: Unable to umount /cdrom, Device is busy. >> If I do the umont from KDE I get the same error message. >> What I'm doing wrong?? > > You've either got a process with it's current working directory > somewhere under /cdrom, or you've got a process with an open file > descriptor (or a memory map) on one of the files on the CD. > > Try using: > > # fstat -f /cdrom > > to see if you can identify the culprits. Then either close them down, > or CD to elsewhere in the filesystem if it's an interactive session. > Once the CD Rom is idle, you should be able to dismount it easily. To elaborate on what Matthew was saying, if you cd /cdrom once it's mounted, and you try to unmount, you're going to get an error. I always make certain to cd back home and the unmount the CD. You can't unmount a device that you're currently 'on.' HTH ----- Eric F Crist Secure Computing Networks --Apple-Mail-2--873955692 content-type: application/pgp-signature; x-mac-type=70674453; name=PGP.sig content-description: This is a digitally signed message part content-disposition: inline; filename=PGP.sig content-transfer-encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Darwin) iEYEARECAAYFAkFtdKgACgkQRAAY9knOW+rfFQCdFA+bbhBydp4VyAgmt7oti87b lpMAn3plK4nHhhVmVH6ghmAEeK1YdQGH =+Dtj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Apple-Mail-2--873955692--
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