[PLUG] Optical drive driving me crazy

[Don Buchholz]

On 12/29/2015 12:06 AM, Russell Senior wrote:
>>>>>> "johnxj" == johnxj  <johnxj at comcast.net> writes:
> johnxj> The computer is otherwise running fine. From past experience the
> johnxj> only way I know to fix this problem is to reboot the
> johnxj> computer. Please don't tell me I must always reboot the computer
> johnxj> in order to change an optical medium. :(
>
> johnxj> Edit: Now I can't even mount a USB drive. It is at least
> johnxj> recognized, but attempts to mount it result in:
>
> johnxj> "Error creating mount point `/media/jjj/128GB': Read-only file
> johnxj> system."
>
> Remove the USB and optical media and in a terminal, run:
>
>    mount
>
> by itself and paste the results.
>
>

"eject  ..." is the terminal command to eject media (optical disks, USB
sticks, external drives, etc.).  What you type after "eject" will depend
on the output from the "mount" command that Russell has requested.
The output of "fdisk" can often be helpful, too ...

- Don