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can't unmount devices
  • From: Allen Seelye <aseelye@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 08:32:41 -0700
  • Message-id: <200312020832.41527.aseelye@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
I'm having this problem with on two machines, both SuSE 8.2. I'll put in a zip
disk or a cd or a floppy, and when I'm ready to unmount it, sometimes it
won't let me. It gives me this error;

Could not unmount device.
The reported error was:
umount: /media/cdrom: device is busy

I look in the process table and can't find anything related to the device in
question, I try browsing to different folders to make sure it doesn't still
think I'm looking at the mounted drive. I've also tried just waiting a while
to see if the system figures it out on it's own. When this happens, the only
way to get the disc out is to restart.

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Allen Seelye
Aseelye@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Happiness is not the absence of conflict but the ability to cope with it.


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