Anthony Thompson said: > I have just made the change from Mandrake to Fedora Core 1 and Im having > problems unmounting cdrom drive. > Everytime i attempt to umount /mnt/cdrom or eject I get the error "cdrom > busy". > > I am well aware this normally occurs if you are still using the cdrom > drive. I spent 30mins browsing the fedora list archives but was able to > get any ideas/solutions.. Yes. This happens on Fedora and also on RHL 8/9. I see it occasionally and do a lazy umount if it happens. umount -l (lowercase letter L) takes care of it for me. Some man pages seem to suggest that umount itself can cause the filesystem to be busy because of the library it uses. Hope this helps. Erik
