Re: cdrom does not un-mounts
On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 08:33:34PM +0100, Iain Mac Donald wrote:
> 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.
True enough.
> There was a long running thread on the FAM/umount bug on
> debian-gtk-gnome mailing list recently.
Yeah, well, I hope they fix it, and not consider it a 'feature'. I'll
look up this thread, thanks!
David
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