[Sheflug] ejecting mounted cdroms...

["Barrie Bremner" <nospam [at] barriebremner.com>]

Guennadi Liakhovetski writes:
 > Hello all
 > 
 > I always was sure one can't eject mounted CDs manually (or by
 > 'eject')... However, yesterday it turned out that I could... I press the
 > button - CD ejects, mount still shows it mounted, ls /cdrom also lists
 > files (cached) happily... What's wrong?
 > 
 > Thanks
 > Guennadi

I seem to remember the behaviour was changed a couple of kernel
revisions ago (2.2.14?) so that it was possible to eject a CD using
the button at any time.

If the disk is still mounted, however VFS does complain via
/var/log/messages.

You can still umount the drive after the media has been ejected.

Baz.

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