[techtalk] ejecting the #$%#$! cdrom

Jeff Dike jdike at karaya.com
Tue May 30 11:34:51 EST 2000


> Once in a  while Linux (RH 6.2) will insist that a cdrom is busy and
> thus will not let me umount it and thus will not let me eject it.

Another handy thing is lsof.  lsof | grep /mnt/cdrom will tell you what 
processes have open files in /mnt/cdrom (I think - my system seems not to have 
lsof on it).

				Jeff







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