Device busy, but is not true

[RNC]

Hello all,

I want to mount a disk in the cd-rom to my hp-ux, and I obtain the next error:

/dev/dsk/xxxxxx : Device busy

But it'snt correct, who can I see if the device is busy, or what proceess is the problem?

Thanks in advanced

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[Ivan Ferreira]

Device busy can be also the target mount point.

You can use the fuser command to list the process that are accessing to a file/directory.

[James George_1]

Its possible that you are not mounting the right disk . Make sure you are mounting the CD ROM drive disk to the /cdrom directory .
So do

# ioscan -fnC disk

and find out the device name for the CD/DVD drive and then do

# mount /dev/dsk/cXtXdX /cdrom

Rgds / James

[Luk Vandenbussche]

Have you tried to mount with another media?

[RNC]

Hello,

I do the test whit fuser , and all is ok, i do the test to mount, and give the same error.

[V. Nyga]

Hi,

maybe it's automounting?
Check with bdf if it's mounted.

By the way - which hardware, os do you have?

Volkmar

[Paul Maglinger]

Sometimes I've had problems similar to this and corrected by unmounting the directory (just to make sure), then deleting the /cdrom directory, recreating it and the remounting it.