Re: cdrom does not un-mounts
On Fri, 2004-05-28 at 19:14, David Fokkema wrote:
> > If you are running Gnome you could try something like
> > gksu "/etc/init.d/fam stop"
> > umount the cd followed by
> > gksu "/etc/init.d/fam start"
>
> My brother has problems unmounting his zip drive. It is _always_ famd
> which is blocking things. What the hell does it do? Yes, I've read the
> manpage, but the only time we notice it is when it is blocking some
> umount. Quite irritating.
>
FAM - I think it stands for File Alteration Monitor. It is used by lots
of applications but in particular Nautilus (also Gnome Commander - but
can be turned off). If a file is changed, deleted or created the
application is alerted, otherwise the user would have to refresh the
window constantly. Certainly a useful function.
There was a long running thread on the FAM/umount bug on
debian-gtk-gnome mailing list recently.
Regards,
Iain.
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