Re: strange umount behaviour
On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 12:19:41PM +0100, Lukas Ruf wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> very strange to me I have problems umounting a previously mounted
> device. I make use of unstable.
>
> The output is:
> komsys-pc-lr:~!75> mount
> rootfs on / type rootfs (rw)
> /dev/root on / type ext3 (rw)
> proc on /proc type proc (rw)
> devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw)
> /dev/hda1 on /boot type ext3 (rw)
> /dev/hda3 on /var type ext3 (rw)
> /dev/hda5 on /home type ext3 (rw)
> /dev/hda6 on /www type ext3 (rw)
> /dev/hda7 on /scratch type ext3 (rw)
> usbdevfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw)
> none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)
> komsys-pc-lr:~!76> mount /cdrom
> komsys-pc-lr:~!77> umount /cdrom
> umount: only root can unmount /dev/cdrom from /cdrom
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> komsys-pc-lr:~!78> ls -l /bin/*mount*
> -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 72488 Oct 7 17:46 /bin/mount*
> -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 36680 Oct 7 17:46 /bin/umount*
>
>
> Does anyone know why and how I can solve this problem?
What are the permissions on /dev/cdrom (or more precisely: the device
file that /dev/cdrom is a symlink to)?
Do you have read/write permissions to it?
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