you can also try eject -m
-m -- do not unmount device even if it is mounted Dnia czwartek 31 maj 2007, G T Smith napisał: > James Hatridge wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Sometimes I have a CD/DVD go bad etc and it will not come out of the CD > > reader. As root I try the eject command and it will not work saying that > > the CD is busy. So far I've ended up rebooting to get the !"§$ CD out. Is > > there a way to force the eject command to work without rebooting? > > > > Thanks, > > > > JIM > > Not clear whether this is when burning or when reading, and which > applications you are having a problem with. > > If it is a data CD try manually unmounting before ejecting. > > It this fails this most likely means the device is still in use by the > application or a process of the application that you last accessed the > CD/DVD with. Close the application if possible. If the application has > crashed it is possible that the process accessing the device is still > running in the background. Use ps to find the process and kill it. > Cannot really give info on what to look for without further details. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
