Force umount the unresponsive drive
The newbie states that when he pushes the Eject button on the DVD drive of a server running a certain Redmond-based operating system, it will eject immediately. He then complains that, in most enterprise Linux servers, if a process is running in that directory, then the ejection won't happen. For too long as a Linux administrator, I would reboot the machine and get my disk on the bounce if I couldn't figure out what was running and why it wouldn't release the DVD drive. But this is ineffective. Here's how you find the process that holds your DVD drive and eject it to your heart's content: First, simulate it. Stick a disk in your DVD drive, open up a terminal, and mount the DVD drive:
# mount /media/cdrom
# cd /media/cdrom
# while [ 1 ]; do echo "All your drives are belong to us!"; sleep 30; done Now open up a second terminal and try to eject the DVD drive:
# eject You'll get a message like:
umount: /media/cdrom: device is busy Before you free it, let's find out who is using it.
# fuser /media/cdrom You see the process was running and, indeed, it is our fault we can not eject the disk.
Now, if you are root, you can exercise your godlike powers and kill processes:
# fuser -k /media/cdrom Boom! Just like that, freedom. Now solemnly unmount the drive:
# eject fuser is good. 
Thank you Susan.
ReplyDeleteI will consider this. Hopes your banner is not big.