Subject: Re: umount
From: Jim Gribbin (jgribbin@alaska.net)
Date: Mon Nov 26 2001 - 01:57:56 AKST
Have you tried 'umount /dev/cdrom'?
I have used 'printtool' on RH6.2 and RH7.1 in the last couple of hours,
worked fine (also 'umount'). How are you using it (them)?
Jim
On Sat, 2001-11-24 at 00:33, JOHN MUELLER wrote:
>
> DAK,
> Seems that all this hype about "how dangerous it is to remove media
> before umounting" is pure hogwash !! Once I mount, nothing I do will
> make the device not busy. So I might as well just yank it out, because
> I try "umount -f" to try to force it, but even that doesn't work.
> Printtool doesn't work in RedHat, and magicfilter only works for Debian
> for printers. Does anyone have an "exact" sequence for umounting a
> cdrom, or a "somewhat precise" location for info to configure printers
> on RedHat and Mandrake ? Also, for wvdial, put the line "Default Reply
> = connect ppp" for UAA dialups in wvdial.conf.
> Off to the web....
> Johnny
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