Comments on: umount: /mnt/XXXX: device is busy http://www.karkomaonline.com/index.php/2003/05/umount-mntxxxx-device-is-busy/ a Blog for SysAdmins and Unix stuff in general Tue, 13 Sep 2011 05:10:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Anonymous http://www.karkomaonline.com/index.php/2003/05/umount-mntxxxx-device-is-busy/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Anonymous Sat, 20 Sep 2003 06:50:10 +0000 http://www.karkomaonline.com/index.php/2003/05/12/umount-mntxxxx-device-is-busy/#comment-6 This will also do the trick: <blockquote>kill -9 `lsof -t /dev/cdrom` umount /dev/cdrom eject</blockquote> This will also do the trick:

kill -9 `lsof -t /dev/cdrom`
umount /dev/cdrom
eject

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.karkomaonline.com/index.php/2003/05/umount-mntxxxx-device-is-busy/comment-page-1/#comment-5 Anonymous Sat, 07 Jun 2003 18:36:20 +0000 http://www.karkomaonline.com/index.php/2003/05/12/umount-mntxxxx-device-is-busy/#comment-5 You also could try something like this... <blockquote>fuser -muv /mnt/cdrom</blockquote> which will list each account, PID, etc using the device mounted on /mnt/cdrom. You also could try something like this…

fuser -muv /mnt/cdrom

which will list each account, PID, etc using the device mounted on /mnt/cdrom.

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