From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 22 21:52:35 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA05617 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 22 Dec 1997 21:52:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts7-line16.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA05611 for ; Mon, 22 Dec 1997 21:52:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA07814; Mon, 22 Dec 1997 21:51:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 21:51:44 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Kwoody cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Cdu31a cdrom In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 19 Dec 1997, Kwoody wrote: > > I did it again...cd rom is mounted...I forget to umount the cd *before* > opening it to change cd's and I'm hooped. Now I cant acccess the cdrom. > All i get are media changed stuff. Also when I try and umount it now I > get the message: > > umount: /dev/scd0a: invalid argument > do an ls of /cdrom or try to chnage to the cdrom dir and get input/output > error. > > is there a way to re-read fstab or something, cause the only way to fix > this in the past is the reboot. I hate rebooting. You can try `umount -f /cdrom', but no guarantees you won't panic your system. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major