[PLUG] Optical drive driving me crazy

[Don Buchholz]

On 12/29/2015 8:18 AM, Don Buchholz wrote:
> 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 ...
Um, that's  "fdisk -l"  ....   (Sorry, a bit of a caffeine deficiency 
still.)

- Don