umount

Don Livingston plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
Tue, 25 Sep 2001 17:05:42 -0700


On Tuesday, September 25, 2001, Carl Parrish wrote:

> Okay whenever I try to umount my cdrom drive it tell me
devise is busy
> (despite the fact that I can't see anything using it). Is
there anyway I
> can force it to umount anyway or kill whatever is using it
(how would I
> find that out?). yes I've tried umount - f.

My experience is that as long as any open session has any
part of the cdrom/* path as the current working directory,
the umount will fail.  Perhaps some sessions need to be
closed or current working directories need to be changed?
Don.