Can't unmount an HP-UX CD

[Mike Berry_2]

Hi all

Mounted an HP-UX CDROM in the drive. Realised that there were no depots on the CD, looks like the CD was created for Microsoft platform (lots of .msi files). Now I can't unmount it. Tried fuser but no joy. Is this because it is the wrong type of filesystem???
Please help!

Thanks

Mike

[Clemens van Everdingen]

Hi,

Did you cd to a directory on the CD and still in this directory ?
Do cd / and then umount !

C.

[Mike Berry_2]

Thanks anyway Clemens, but all commands executed from /

Mike

[Clemens van Everdingen]

Hi,

what where the steps you took ?
mount --> ll or something else.

Might be some process that keeps the cdrom busy.

C.

[Clemens van Everdingen]

Hi,

Also tell us the mount command you used to mount the CD !

C.

[John Payne_2]

If it is an external CDROM or DVDROM, have you tried powering off the unit, powering it on, and immediately after powerup, hit the eject button?

Hope it helps

John

[harry d brown jr]

Mike,

get a copy of "lsof" from http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Sysadmin/lsof-4.64/ and use it to determine if anyone has it "opened".

What was the error messaged you received? Did it say the device was "busy"?? If so, then something has either "cd"'d into the cd or has a file open.

What does "bdf" show for the mounted cd?

What was the command you used to mount the cd ??

live free or die
harry

[MANOJ SRIVASTAVA]

Hi Mike


check wheter pfs_mountd and pfsd where running or not , do a ps -aef | grep pfs and if exisiting kill them but with the lowest PID first .


Manoj Srivastava

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

# fuser -c /mount/point

will show you the process ID's of the processes that still have the CD open

[Wodisch]

Hi Mike,

I guess your "swagent" is still running - you used "swlist" onto that mount-point, didn't you?
Kill the "swagent" (not the "swagentd", though), and you should be fine...

FWIW,
Wodisch

[Steven E. Protter]

fuser -cuk /cdrom

If that won't let you unmount, its time to boot the box.