On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 15:18 -0600, Gain Paolo Mureddu wrote: > How can you track down what process has locked the CD Rom > drive, when you have nothing opened showing its contents, nor a VT cd'ed > to it?!?! > What I would use is the fuser command in /sbin. More info can be found by using man fuser or info fuser. The idea is this for a cdrom drive. fuser -m /media/$MY_CD_ROM This will list all associated PID that are accessing the file or file system. then an fuser -k -m /media/CDROM will kill all the processes accessing the drive
