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Re: CD dirve lock or busy



Shlomo Reches <shlomor@msil.sps.mot.com> wrote:
>  I can't tell exactly the scenario, but from time to time, CDROM
>  refuses to mount, because of busy, lock or already mounted file
>  system.
>  
>  If I do unmount, it tells you, nothing mounted.
>  
>  More information - 
>  
>  - I am not in the directory I am trying to mount.
>  - It happens on RedHat (I don't remember to have it on Slackware)
>  - The CDROM was mounted and unmounted succesfuly in that session,
>    before. (It never happened for the first mount in a session)
>  - Reboot solves it.

What about fuser -m /dev/cdrom ?

Will the manual deleting of the corresponding line from the /etc/mtab solve the
problem?

Evgeny


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