device is busy answer

[poonty]

Hi
I am trying to mount my cdrom it is saying device is busy. can anybody help what to do? thanks

[James R. Ferguson · Accepted solution]

Hi:

Make sure that you have not already 'cd'ed into the mountpoint.

Regards!

...JRF...

[aneez]

hi

where u r trying to mount the cdrom.

check the existing directory is existing or not.

if the drive is showing busy during the umount ,check somewhere its accesing or u are inside that directory( /cdrom)


Aneez

[skt_skt]

try

#lsof /mountpoint
or
#fuser -uc /mountpoint

what does that return.

[UVA]

Hi,

check your mount point. as you may be inside the mount point.

#pwd

or

try to mount the cd to some other mount point.

[poonty]

with bdf command it doesn't show cdrom is mounted and there is no mountpoint name directory and I am at / when I do #pwd. thanks

[Steven Schweda]

Perhaps you could show us your "mount"
command, and any other things you do ("pwd",
...)?

[A. Clay Stephenson]

... and by any chance have you been using any of the pfs_mount commands? They are notorious for causing your symptoms.

[poonty]

hopefully problem will be solved now. Thanks everybody for helping me.