cant mount drive

[Rick Stevens]

Thornton wrote:
>>if you want to burn a CD:
>>1. do not mount it before.
>>2. be sure you do not have an open file manager window to the cdrom
>>3. umount the CD, if it is mounted, you can check that with the "mount" command in a shell
>>	$ mount
>>	/dev/hda3 on / type ext3 (rw)
>>	none on /proc type proc (rw)
>>	none on /sys type sysfs (rw)
>>	none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
>>	usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
>>	/dev/hda1 on /boot type ext3 (rw)
>>	none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
>>	....
>>    there should not be an entry with iso9660 or udf..
> 
> 
> i've tried unmounting it but I get the same error thats it in use by
> something else.  I tried just unmounting it through X and command with
> the same response.  Its like something is mounting it daring boot or
> something and isnt releasing.

Try "lsof | grep cdrom" and see which process has it open or is using
it as its current directory.  Then either kill the process or get it
to release the CD.
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