Unmounting the unresponsive DVD drive:- Here's how you find the process that holds your DVD drive and eject it to your heart's content: First, simulate it. Stick a disk in your DVD drive, open up a terminal, and mount the DVD drive:
# mount /media/cdrom # cd /media/cdrom # while [ 1 ]; do echo "All your drives are belong to us!"; sleep 30; done Now open up a second terminal and try to eject the DVD drive: # eject You'll get a message like: umount: /media/cdrom: device is busy Before you free it, let's find out who is using it. # fuser /media/cdrom You see the process was running and, indeed, it is our fault we can not eject the disk. Now, if you are root, you can exercise your godlike powers and kill processes: # fuser -k /media/cdrom Boom! Just like that, freedom. Now solemnly unmount the drive: # eject fuser is good. -- விஷ்ணுராஜ். க Kanchi Linux User Group Rocks ! http://kanchilug.wordpress.com My Experiments In Linux are here http://gnutuxfollower.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
