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unmount?

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DIRTsquirt

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Greetings! as those of you may remember I am a newbie and am perplexed in that I can mount my cdrom mount /mnt/cdrom
but I cant unmount it unmount /mnt/cdrom I find I have to reboot the machine in order to get it to unmount. can anyone offer some insite?
It isnt really a big deal to have to reboot but it is a pain in arse I know I shouldnt have to endure.. Thanks in advance
You guys rock!
 
😀 you'd think distros would start at least symlinking unmount to umount... n0c, any insight into why it isn't unmount? (since you know so much *nix stuff 😉)
 


<< 😀 you'd think distros would start at least symlinking unmount to umount... n0c, any insight into why it isn't unmount? (since you know so much *nix stuff 😉) >>



No clue. Ive wondered, but I couldnt think of a way to easily search for information like that.
 
If umount does not let you unmount the cdrom, then:

-You are probably accessing data from within the mount point the cdrom is mounted on. Check all your open shell terminals you have open, and possible virtual terminals you might have logged into, where you might have forgotten you were accessing data from within the cdrom mount point.
-You have an app accessing data from within the mount point where the cdrom is mounted on (i.e. filesystem browsers, cd players, xmms, etc)
-You probably have a defunct app, that you exited, or killed, that is still indicating that somewhere within the mount point of the cdrom, data is still being accessed.
-Rare, but happens . . . . remote cdrom access, where the connection times out, but for some reason the system believes the device is busy. In this case, you have to let it time out.

Hope this info helps.

/edit: Fixed command typo (caught by n0cmonkey)
/edit: Caught a small prob with a sentence.
 


<< Ooooops, my bad. . .. It has been corrected. >>



I thought it was funny that most of the thread has been wondering why the command is umount instead of unmount and you posted for us to use unmount 😛
 
>>Thats a pain. When I was newer I spent a while trying to figure out why unmount wouldnt work

I still use unmount in those moments when it is way to late to be up.
 
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