Re: Strange umount permission denied

1998-04-17 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Wilderspin) writes: > On 16 Apr 98 13:17:25 GMT, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >I keep getting an error message telling me that I can't unmount my CD drive. > > The simplest thing this could be is that one of your shells has /cdrom > as their current directory. You ca

Re: Strange umount permission denied

1998-04-17 Thread Robert Wilderspin
On 16 Apr 98 13:17:25 GMT, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I keep getting an error message telling me that I can't unmount my CD drive. The simplest thing this could be is that one of your shells has /cdrom as their current directory. You can't unmount until you cd out of there. (I'm sorry if that

Re: Strange umount permission denied

1998-04-16 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tristan Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I keep getting an error message telling me that I can't unmount my CD drive. >it tells me that the CDROM is in use, and says >'permission denied' even when I'm root. Well, probably it _is_ in use. Try "fuser -vm /cdrom" to see

Strange umount permission denied

1998-04-16 Thread Tristan Day
I keep getting an error message telling me that I can't unmount my CD drive. I mount it with mount /dev/hdc /cdrom and normally I am able to unmount it with umount /dev/hdc /cdrom but whatever I do: umount /dev/hdc or umount /cdrom or the first command, it tells me that the CDROM is in use