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Re: My CDROM is mounted by ?



On Mon, 2003-05-26 at 18:16, David selby wrote:
> This is probarbly an old chestnut but,
> 
> How can I find out what has a mount on my DVD player.
> 
> I have been mounting my DVD, /mount /CDROM/ reading DVDs.
> I tried to /umount /cdrom, "device busy"/ I shut down all my programs, 
> just KDE running, /"device busy".
> /Had to resort to drastic action, re-booted system
> 
> Im sure there is a better way ?
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
lsof

As well, try umount -l /<mount-point> which waits until a gap happens,
grabs the device and does the unmount (conceptually speaking.)

I know that fam/libfam will make a mountable device seem to be busy to a
umount command.
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