cdrom/floppy umount issue possible bug

[Michael Smith]

--- damon fister <damon at cns-tech.net> wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> Forgive me if this issue has been addressed and I am
> overlooking it in
> the archive. My problem is when trying to either
> eject or unmount a
> floppy drive or cdrom, I receive an error that the
> device is busy. There
> is no activity on either the cdrom or floppy drive
> and no applications
> open using either device. I have tried, as both an
> unprivileged user and
> root)
> umount -n /mnt/floppy
> umount -r /mnt/floppy
> eject /dev/fd0
> all to no avail. 

Damon,
This is a known bug in Fedora, and a real pain if you
use removable media a lot. Try the umount command with
the -l (lazy) option. It seems that trying to unmount
the drive can make it appear to be busy!

  umount -l /mnt/floppy

Mike Smith


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