On Thursday 31 May 2007 18:17:00 G T Smith wrote: > 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 !"ยง$ 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. > > Use ps to find the process and kill it. > Cannot really give info on what to look for without further details.
And don't forget the handy lsof command, particularly combined with grepping where the CD has been mounted... Jon -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
