Russell Senior wrote: >>>>>> "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. > > Did you notice the "busy inodes problem"? Wonder if you ran out of inodes? You might want to check out this webpage (http://blog.scoutapp.com/articles/2014/10/08/understanding-disk-inodes) for an explanation of inodes and how to you might overcome the difficulties they might cause.
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