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Re: [opensuse] CD question
- From: David Salgado <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2007 16:14:35 -0600
- Message-id: <200707031614.35986.linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Thursday 31 May 2007 09:32, 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?
It seems that some processes "hold" the ejection of your CD ROM unit.
What you can do is an:
lsof -i -P -n | grep "/dev/hdx"
or
lsof -i -P -n | grep "/media/WHEREYOURCDROMISMOUNTED"
This will give you the list of processes that hold your CD.
Good luck !
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> 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?
It seems that some processes "hold" the ejection of your CD ROM unit.
What you can do is an:
lsof -i -P -n | grep "/dev/hdx"
or
lsof -i -P -n | grep "/media/WHEREYOURCDROMISMOUNTED"
This will give you the list of processes that hold your CD.
Good luck !
--
David Salgado
linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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