-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 11:27:21AM -0400, Dick Roth wrote: > Jim Perrin wrote: > > {snip} > > >It sounds like the cd is still mounted by your user. unmount the cd, > >then you should be able to take it out. If you're using gnome/KDE you > >should have a CD icon. Right click and choose unmount/eject, or from > >the command line 'umount /path/to/cdrom'. The path to your cdrom will > >most likely be /media/cdrecorder but it varies. > > Jim, thanks for your input. I had done each and every one of your > suggestions. After right-clicking on the CD icon (gnome) and clicking > on "Eject", I would get an error message telling me that it couldn't > perform the operation. Checking mounted volumes showed no CD mounted. > Running top didn't raise any flags on application helpers that might > have maintained ownership or had hooks into a process that would prevent > operation on the drive. You might want to try: fuser /mnt/cdrom and fuser -m /mnt/cdrom These will give you some clue of what is stopping you from unmonting the fs. []s - -- Rodrigo Barbosa <rodrigob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> "Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur" "Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) iD4DBQFC0VkbpdyWzQ5b5ckRAkGaAJdL/5qMcf9Os3Uqj9+at/9FLjAPAJ9nxcdZ Kg1BkE+bLRefcl5yWKDndg== =T/pQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----