How to eject a cd/dvd in Linux if the eject button dosen’t works.

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It sometimes happens that when you press the eject button of the DVD/CD drive, nothing happens. You can eject the disk only by rebooting the system. But you can eject the disk without a system reboot by the following methods.

Simply right click on the CD/DVD icon on your desktop and select the Eject/Unmount option.  If even this does not work , then run the following command:

$ df

Shown below is a sample output for the above command:

/dev/hda6         11079832       6788525       365286    66%      /tmp

“                                 ”                        ”                     ”            ”            ”

/dev/hdc              693064          693064              0          100%      /media/LFYCD_March08

This tells us that /dev/hdc is our CD/DVD-ROM drive. Now use the following command as the root.

# fuser -km /dev/hdc

Now you should be able to eject your Disk

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