cant mount drive

Rick Stevens rstevens at vitalstream.com
Mon Oct 11 21:43:10 UTC 2004


Thornton wrote:
>>The system will automount the drive and Konqueror sees it as such.
>>While konqueror won't allow you to mount it a second time, the command
>>line will.  You'll have it mounted on top of itself, however, and it
>>will take two "umount /mnt/cdrom" commands to unmount it.
>>
>>You can try to force an unmount by using "umount -f /mnt/cdrom", too.
> 
> 
> [root at obsidian root]# umount /mnt/cdrom
> umount: /mnt/cdrom: not mounted
> [root at obsidian root]# umount /mnt/cdrom
> umount: /mnt/cdrom: not mounted
> [root at obsidian root]# umount /mnt/cdrom
> umount: /mnt/cdrom: not mounted
> [root at obsidian root]# umount -f /mnt/cdrom
> umount2: Invalid argument
> umount: /mnt/cdrom: not mounted
> [root at obsidian root]# umount -f /mnt/cdrom
> umount2: Invalid argument
> umount: /mnt/cdrom: not mounted
> [root at obsidian root]# umount -f /mnt/cdrom
> umount2: Invalid argument
> umount: /mnt/cdrom: not mounted
> [root at obsidian root]#
> 
> But when I tried to then burn using k3b I get this error again:
> 
> Error trying to open /dev/hdc exclusively ... retrying in 1 second.
> Error trying to open /dev/hdc exclusively ... retrying in 1 second.
> 
> I'm not sure how its not mounted yet its in use.

Go into your desktop options and turn off the automount on the CD drive.
In Gnome it's:

	Red Hat Icon --> Preferences --> CD Properties

There should be something similar in KDE (I don't use KDE often).
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