NAME

eject — eject a floppy disk, cdrom or tape

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

The eject program ejects a medium from the specified device. It can also load a cdrom in the drive if this operation is supported by the hardware. The device argument specifies a device either by its full path name (identified by a /dev/ prefix), or by one of the built-in nicknames. If the medium contains a file system that is currently mounted, eject will attempt to unmount the file system before ejecting.

The following options are available:

-d

Deprecated.

-f

Force the eject operation without attempting to unmount any file systems first.

-l

Load media in the drive (only supported for the cdrom device type).

-L

Lock the media into the drive (but see BUGS below).

-n

List the built-in nicknames on standard output.

-t device-type

Specify the device type. The argument must be one of diskette, floppy, cdrom, disk, or tape. This option is necessary when ejecting a device for which no built-in knowledge is available.

-U

Unlock the media from the drive.

-v

Display some of the actions taken on standard output.

BUGS

Most disk drivers automatically lock the media on the first open and unlock it on the last close, making ‘eject -L’ almost useless, since when it closes the device, it gets unlocked again.