[Gllug] not your average newbie question...

[Huw Lynes]

On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 10:21:41 +0000
"daniel.booth" <daniel.booth at linguaphone.co.uk> wrote:

> ok newbie time... I have a cd stuck in the cd rom and when doing a 
> "mount" cmd i get this strange looking result.
> (see below)
> 
> /dev/cdrom on /mnt/cdrom type iso9660 (ro,nosuid,nodev,user=danny)
> /dev/sda1 on /home/danny/USBflash type vfat (rw,uid=500,gid=500)
> /dev/cdrom on /mnt/cdrom type udf,iso9660 (ro,nosuid,nodev)
> /dev/cdrom on /mnt/cdrom type udf,iso9660 (ro,nosuid,nodev)
> 
> it says i have 3 mounts on the cd rom... when i have only monuted to my 
> knowledge once.
> the main problem is getting the cd out. but how and why this happened 
> would be useful.
> 
Assuming nothing really terrible has gone wrong, then all that's happened is
that some process is sat below /mnt/cdrom not allowing you to unmount it. Make
sure you don't have any shells sat in /mnt/cdrom or any GUI apps browsing it.

If you have trouble hunting down the culprit try:

fuser /mnt/cdrom

this should give you the PID of the process that is accessing /mnt/cdrom .
kill -9 that process and retry the umount.


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