Umount ZIP or CDROM

DISCUSSION Gaston 2 participants 2 messages Jul 4, 2003

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2003-07-04 15:30 UTC #0 lore raw

Hello,

How come that I cannot umount and eject a CDROM or ZIP disc when it has been mounted in an NFS (DOS) machine and unmounted.

The drive is reported as busy.

I have to stop nfs, umount and eject the disc, then start nfs again.

Thanks in advance

Gaston

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Steven N. Hirsch

2003-07-04 16:11 UTC #1 lore raw

Quoted 8 lines · Gaston

Hello,
How come that I cannot umount and eject a CDROM or ZIP disc when it has been mounted in an NFS (DOS) machine and unmounted.
The drive is reported as busy.
I have to stop nfs, umount and eject the disc, then start nfs again.

If you export the CDROM/ZIP, the server regards it as busy regardless of whether any clients are using it (remember, NFS is stateless). It should be sufficient to do 'exportfs -u /mnt/cdrom' (use the appropriate path on the server). You should not need to stop nfs.

Steve