Every wonder why sometimes you get this message when you try to un-mount a NFS drive or cdrom drive

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root@homer:~# umount /mnt/cdrom 
umount: /mnt/cdrom: device is busy
umount: /mnt/cdrom: device is busy
root@homer:~#




Well chances a process is running that is using that directory. To find out run



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root@homer:~# fuser -m /mnt/cdrom/
/mnt/cdrom/: 24066c




That shows you what process is using that directory. Now lets do a ps aux and see whats running



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root@homer:~# ps aux | grep 24066 
root 24066 0.0 0.5 2244 1284 pts/10 S 14:04 0:00 -su
root@homer:~#





Looks like a the root user is in that directory. If you cannot find the term that is in that directory then kill that process



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root@homer:~# kill -9 24066
root@homer:~#





now you can un-mount



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root@homer:~# umount /mnt/cdrom/
root@homer:~#




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