dell + drive door won't respond

Gain Paolo Mureddu gmureddu at prodigy.net.mx
Sun Jan 23 22:33:36 UTC 2005


micheal wrote:

>On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 15:18 -0600, Gain Paolo Mureddu wrote:
>  
>
>> How can you track down what process has locked the CD Rom 
>>drive, when you have nothing opened showing its contents, nor a VT cd'ed 
>>to it?!?!
>>
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>
>What I would use is the fuser command in /sbin.  More info can be found
>by using man fuser or info fuser. The idea is this for a cdrom drive.
>
>fuser -m /media/$MY_CD_ROM
>
>This will list all associated PID that are accessing the file or file
>system.
>
>then an fuser -k -m /media/CDROM
>
>will kill all the processes accessing the drive
>
>  
>
Excellent!! Thanks for that info. I was looking for that for so much time!
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