Are RWs a problem?

[Anne Wilson]

On Tuesday 04 April 2006 20:48, Matt Arnilo S. Baluyos (Mailing Lists) wrote:
> On 4/5/06, Anne Wilson <cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 04 April 2006 18:54, Matt Arnilo S. Baluyos (Mailing Lists) 
wrote:
> > > Error trying to open /dev/hdd exclusively ... retrying in 1 second.
> >
> > There may be other problems, but this one suggests that something,
> > probably automount, is grabbing the device.  Make sure you have closed
> > any file manager windows, and if a device icon has come onto the desktop,
> > use it to umount the device.
>
> Thanks Anne, doing a umount on /dev/hdd solved the problem.
>
> This is weird though - shouldn't Fedora automagically do this thing for us?
> I
>
> I don't recall ever having to do a manual umount on my burner device
> whenever I had to to erase rewriteable media on a RHEL-clone like
> CentOS.
>
I'm not exactly sure of the cause, but I have met this from time to time over 
the last couple of years.  I suspect that the fast-changing scene of 
auto-mounting is responsible.  ISTR that it happened at some stages in 
Mandriva, then disappeared at others.

Anne
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