RE: Ever solve eject problem?

["Steven Jones" <Steven.Jones@vuw.ac.nz>]

try fuser, it should show if someone or something is in the directory in question.

so man fuser

eg

[root@vinson etc]# fuser /mnt/ (gives no return)
[root@vinson etc]# cd /mnt/
[root@vinson mnt]# fuser /mnt/
/mnt/:               16337c
[root@vinson mnt]# ps aux |grep 16337
root     16337  0.0  0.0  4268 1372 pts/0    S    08:19   0:00 -bash
root     16408  0.0  0.0  3676  676 pts/0    S    08:25   0:00 grep 16337


So this shows "me" as root in a bash shell in /mnt so /mnt cannot be ejected/unmounted while "I" am in there. This should work for where ever the cd is mounted.

regards

S

-----Original Message-----
From: Eric M. Monsler [mailto:emonsler@radixtek.com]
Sent: Friday, 30 July 2004 5:34 a.m.
To: jerryvb@toast.net; debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Ever solve eject problem?



Jerry, you reported:

 > I get the same problem even as root:

 > debian:/home/jerry# mount /dev/hdc
 > debian:/home/jerry# umount /dev/hdc
 > debian:/home/jerry# eject /dev/hdc
 > eject: unable to eject, last error: Invalid argument

...two weeks ago in a thread on ejecting a CD problem.

Did you ever find a solution?

I've got the exact same problem on my recently Debianed box.

I didn't see any solution on the list, although other threads discussed 
when only root can eject.  I can't eject, even as root:

habanero:/etc# eject /dev/hdc
eject: unable to eject, last error: Invalid argument
habanero:/etc# eject /media/cdrom
eject: unable to eject, last error: Invalid argument
habanero:/etc#

My fstab is:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
/dev/hda6       none            swap    sw              0       0
/dev/hda3       /               ext3    defaults,errors=remount-ro 0       1
/dev/hda5       /home           ext3    defaults        0       2
/dev/hdc        /media/cdrom    iso9660 ro,user,noauto  0       0
/dev/fd0        /media/floppy   auto    rw,user,noauto  0       0
endor:/export/home6/emonsler /home/emonsler/nethome nfs defaults,_netdev

Finally, uname -s reports:

Linux habanero 2.4.26-1-686-smp #1 SMP Fri Jul 9 22:32:32 JST 2004 i686 
GNU/Linux


Thanks,

Eric


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