Re: umount - URGENT

[Dave Wiard <dave@lister.acm.wwu.edu>]

> A better instruction would be to umount /dev/cdrom,
> since this will almost always be a symlink pointing to
> your cdrom device.  Far more systems use /dev/cdrom
> for their cdrom devices than use /dev/hdd, because
> this includes nearly everybody with /dev/hdd,
> /dev/sdd, /dev/hd<someotherletter> and
> /dev/sd<someotherletter> as the cdrom device.

that's great, but what if the problematic cd happens to be the second cd 
device?  /dev/cdrom won't help if that's the case, so using 
/dev/<thedevice> is a better choice, IMHO, if you know the device you want
to umount.

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dave wiard
dave@acm.wwu.edu