eject cd

Rick Stevens rstevens at vitalstream.com
Tue Dec 28 17:52:46 UTC 2004


Thornton wrote:
> If I bootup FC2 I cant eject a CD from my drive.  Even by manually
> pressing the button the cd drive it wont eject.  However if I am just
> sitting in the bios it ejects fine and if I boot Windows.
> 
> Is something conflicting with this inside fedora?

If you put a data CD into the drive, Fedora will automount it at 
/mnt/cdrom by default.  Either disable automounting or use the command
"eject /mnt/cdrom" to force a umount and eject.
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