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Re: [LUG] umounting CDROM



On Thursday 04 December 2003 18:52, David Batho wrote:
> A silly question, I've installed Fedora (great Distro) but, I'm having a
> problem that every-time my computer mounts an CDROM I'm unable to
> dismount it.
>
> It informs me that the drive is still busy!!
>
> How can I find what's holding the mount open?
>
>
Try umount -l /dev/whatever

lazy unmount ( -l switch) works for me in SUSE when the cdrom complains of 
being busy!

cheers 

lee


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