Are RWs a problem?

[Matt Arnilo S. Baluyos (Mailing Lists)]

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.


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