Disks won't eject in Leopard
Sometimes disks (any disks, not just CD/DVDs) refuse to eject. I've
tried ejecting with Disk Utility. I've tried command-line unmount. I've tried
telling spotlight settings under "Privacy" to not index the drive.
I've tried using
lsof and fuser to find processes. Eventually, "lsof | grep VOLNAME"
found fseventsd.
So, I killed the fseventsd process (don't worry, it'll restart automatically).
After that, the drive could be ejected.
Will add more later.
List of ways I know of to eject
Many of these probably use the same underlying mechanism.
GUI methods:
Drag to trash.
Eject button in finder sidebar.
Eject menu extra (for CDs and DVDs only)
Disk Utility (unmount and) eject.
iTunes eject (this one really does work often when others don't)
DVD player eject
Command line methods. Note that many of these are best preceeded by
an unmount command, e.g. "/sbin/umount /Volumes/FileSystem", and in
my original case above, it was the failure to unmount that caused the
failure to eject.
disktool -e devname (use disktool -l to get the devname?)
drutil tray eject (CD/DVD only)
drutil tray open (this may be synonymous with the previous)
diskutil eject ...
hdiutil detach ... (only for disk images).
Will add even more even later.
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At 2010/06/20 2:09
Ashish wrote:
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I use this command and it works for me all the time on leopard : "drutil tray open"
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