Unmounting cdrom when 'device is busy'

[Nick Wilson]

Hi
I'm having a spot of bother mounting/unmounting my cdrom.
At present I'm mounting by clicking it's icon on KDE and unmounting the same way, if I need to access via command line: cd /mnt/cdrom
But sometimes I try to unmount using the icon and I get the msg 'cannot unmount device is busy'
I can't find any instructions on the proper use and commands available, could someone please give me a few pointers?


Much appreciated


Nick Wilson

[Silent Bob]

Close any windows that have anything to do with the cdrom. Then make sure that you don't have any terminal windows open that are cd'd into the /mnt/cdrom.

Open a terminal, su to root. Then type umount /mnt/cdrom (note that there is only 1 'n' in umount). And that should do it :)

[bdg1983]

As Silent Bob said... You can't close a door if your standing in the doorway.

cd out of the /mnt/cdrom directory and then try again.

[Keyser Soze]

Don't know about in linux but in unix you can always type umount -f mount_point (-f=force), give it a try...let me know if it works or not.