On Thursday July 1, 2004 4:05 p.m. "Paul Pianta" <pantz@xxxxxx> wrote: > hey people > > I know this is a common one but I have forgotten it. What is the command > for forcing an umount and ejecting a cdrom that keeps giving the message > 'device busy' - even when you know the device is not in use (Fedora Core > 1)? Paul, This should work. As root: # umount -l /mnt/cdrom --Doc Robert G. (Doc) Savage, BSE(EE), CISSP, RHCE | Fairview Heights, IL Fedora Core 1 kernel 2.4.22-1.2188.nptl on P-III/M IBM Thinkpad A22p "Perfection is the enemy of good enough." -- Admiral of the Fleet Sergei G. Gorshkov