cdrom not unmounting

[dsavage at peaknet.net]

On Thursday July 1, 2004 4:05 p.m. "Paul Pianta" <pantz at lqt.ca> wrote:
> hey people
>
> I know this is a common one but I have forgotten it. What is the command
> for forcing an umount and ejecting a cdrom that keeps giving the message
> 'device busy' - even when you know the device is not in use (Fedora Core
> 1)?

Paul,

This should work. As root:
# umount -l /mnt/cdrom

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