thanks guys!
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 3:12 PM, Kevin Fries <
kevin@fries-biro.com> wrote:
> You probably have a terminal open that has a shell whose current working
> directory is on the s..
>
> $ cd /media/mycdrive
> $ bash
> $ cd /home/me
>
> now your prompt shows you in me's home directory, but the parent shell's
> pwd is on the cd drive. This will tell you the device is busy because
> the shell is open.
>
> This is the one that gets me more times than not.
>
> HTH
> Kevin
>
>
>
> On Mon, 2011-11-28 at 15:02 -0700, Michael Havens wrote:
> > Thanks Bejamin! It says the device is busy. It isn't running and the
> > program that was accessing it has completed. How do I figure out what
> > process is running on it?
> >
> > bmike1@Michael-Notebook:/mnt/dvdrw$ sudo ps -a
> > [sudo] password for bmike1:
> > PID TTY TIME CMD
> > 2094 pts/1 00:00:00 man
> > 2105 pts/1 00:00:00 pager
> > 2197 pts/0 00:00:00 sudo
> > 2426 pts/0 00:00:00 ps
> > bmike1@Michael-Notebook:/mnt/dvdrw$
> >
> > bmike1@Michael-Notebook:/mnt/dvdrw$ eject /dev/dvdrw
> > Unmount failed: Cannot unmount because file system on device is busy
> > eject: unmount of `/media/Linux Mint 12 32-bit' failed
> > bmike1@Michael-Notebook:/mnt/dvdrw$
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Benjamin Browning
> > <benb@bensbrowning.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 2:48 PM, Michael Havens
> > <bmike1@gmail.com>
> > wrote:> I am having difficulties ejecting the CD now. It
> > ejected once,
> > I switched
> > 'eject /dev/dvdrw' might work, or at least tell you why it
> > isn't working :)
> >
> > ~Ben
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