Re: magicdev question

[Simon Wong <linux thoughtworx com>]

On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 21:33, Paul Ionescu wrote:
> echo 0 >  /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/lock    
> # this will prevent locking the cd door while mounted
> mount /mnt/cdrom ; cd /mnt/cdrom ; vi some_file_on_cd 
> #this will make the cd busy and unable to unmount normaly
> NOW press the eject button on the cd.
> The cd is ejected BUT the filesystem is still mounted which is bad.
> The solution is to "umount -l /dev/cdrom" which should work if you have
> a kernel >= 2.4.11, and I bet you have it.

Yep, 2.4.23.

Thanks alot Paul, that's going to help me get out of a pickle or two
I'll bet.

Actually, my biggest problem is fam which seems to love latching onto my
CD's (even though they're RO of course) and I regularly have to restart
fam to eject my CD.