On Friday 07 April 2006 20:35, Tim wrote: > On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 18:59 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > > Tim, you're being obtuse. It does not matter in the least which > > method you use to umount, as long as you umount. I never suggested > > that ejecting was a solution. Mike had referred to umounting from the > > CLI, as you will see above. > > Looking further back in the thread, it looks like the prior poster is > trying to do something with the disc. i.e. They need the disc in the > drive, *and* for it not to be in use. The messages that both you and > Matt Arnilo S. Baluyos reported this little bit in: "Error trying to > open /dev/hdd exclusively ... retrying in 1 second." > > If it weren't for that (wanting to do something with the disc), then it > wouldn't particularly matter how you freed the drive. But if you're > only going to have to put the disc back in again, and go through all of > this to burn a disc (or do something else with it), the little problem I > mentioned still stands (you want it just to be unmounted, not ejected). > What are you talking about? The thread has discussed several ways in which you can umount it. Only you keep going on about ejecting. Anne
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