[ale] Mounted files system

[hirsch at zapmedia.com]

Adrin writes:
 > I think I just made a mistake.

Been there.  Done that.

 > I mounted a cdrom drive across the network. Cdrom drive is on the W2K
 > machine.
 > now it will not let me unmount it.  I keep getting told that the device is
 > busy.
 > I can't even force it to umount.
 > 
 > Any suggestion short of rebooting?

fuser -m /mnt/cdrom (replace /mnt/cdrom with your mount point)

The above command will tell you which processes have the cdrom file
system open.  Then 'kill -9 <pid>' each pid that has it open.  Then
unmount.

--Michael

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