umount refusing to unmount /dev/cdrom

[Tim Writer]

"Martin Duclos" <tchitow-PkbjNfxxIARBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org> writes:

> Hi Scott,
> 
> I've had the same problem myself. Take a look at lsof as suggested and "lsof
> | grep for /mnt/cdrom".

While I agree that lsof is a great tool, fuser is simpler for this particular
job.  For example:

    fuser -m /mnt/cdrom

will list all PIDs using the filesystem mounted at /mnt/cdrom and

    fuser -km /mnt/cdrom

will kill them.

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