>>>>> "John" == John Jason Jordan <joh...@comcast.net> writes:
>> How are you removing the disk? Do you "unmount" it before pushing >> the button on the disk drive? John> In the past I always ejected the media from the optical drive John> either by right-clicking on the drive as listed in Thunar "Places" John> and then Eject, or by physically pushing the button on the John> drive. Both always ejected the media, but apparently once recently John> the drive wasn't ejected cleanly. I have never unmounted it before John> ejecting, regardless of which method I use to eject the media. John> I take note of Keith's suggestion to eject from the command line John> in order to avoid the mount point remaining. The command 'eject John> /dev/sr0' does this well. Unfortunately, while the command opens John> the door, at this point I cannot mount anything because of the John> busy inodes problem, so I cannot test this to see if it really John> solves the problem of a mount point not being removed. It may also John> be easier to unmount from by right-clicking on the drive in John> "Places," as I recall Unmount is another option as well as Eject. It Gnome Ubuntu land, there is an unmount/eject clickie. You may be able to do this manually, something like so: umount /dev/sr0 && eject /dev/sr0 You might need to wrap those in sudo, not sure, untested. -- Russell Senior, President russ...@personaltelco.net _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug