User Commands                                            eject(1)



NAME
     eject - eject media such as CD-ROM and floppy from drive

SYNOPSIS
     eject  [-dflqt] [ [device  nickname]


DESCRIPTION
     The eject utility is used for those removable media  devices
     that  do  not  have a manual eject button, or for those that
     might be locked due to, for  instance,  being  mounted.  The
     device  may be specified by its name or by a nickname. If no
     device is specified, the default device is used.


     Only  devices  that  support  eject  under  program  control
     respond to this command.


     When eject is used on media that can only be  ejected  manu-
     ally,  it does everything except remove the media, including
     unmounting the file system if it is mounted. In  this  case,
     eject  displays a message that the media can now be manually
     ejected.


     Do not physically eject media from a  device  that  contains
     mounted  file  systems. eject automatically searches for any
     mounted file systems that reside on the device, and attempts
     to  umount  them prior to ejecting the media. See mount(1M).
     If the unmount operation fails, eject prints a warning  mes-
     sage  and  exits.  The  -f  option can be used to specify an
     eject even if the device contains mounted partitions.


     If you have inserted a floppy diskette, you  might  need  to
     use volcheck(1) before ejecting the media to inform the sys-
     tem the floppy's presence.

OPTIONS
     The following options are supported:

     -d    Display the name of the default device to be ejected.


     -f    Force the device to eject even if it is busy.


     -l    Display paths and nicknames of ejectable devices.






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     -q    Query to see if the media is present.


     -t    Issues the drive a CD-ROM tray close command.

           Not all devices support this command.


OPERANDS
     The following operands are supported:

     device      Specifies which device to eject, by the name  it
                 appears in the directory /dev.


     nickname    Specifies which device to eject, by its nickname
                 as known to this command.

                 Volume label or device type (for example,  cdrom
                 or floppy0) can be used as a nickname.


EXAMPLES
     Example 1 Ejecting Media


     The following example ejects media by its volume label:


       example> eject 'My Pictures'



     Example 2 Ejecting a Floppy Disk


     The following example ejects a floppy disk  from  the  first
     floppy drive:


       example> eject floppy0



EXIT STATUS
     The following exit codes are returned:

     0    The operation was successful or, with  the  -q  option,
          the media is in the drive.






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     1    The operation was unsuccessful or, with the -q  option,
          the media is not in the drive.


     2    Invalid options were specified.


     3    An ioctl() request failed.


     4    Manually ejectable media is now okay to remove.


FILES
     /dev/diskette0    default diskette file


     /dev/sr0          default CD-ROM file (deprecated)


ATRIBUTES
     See attributes(5) for descriptions of the  following  attri-
     butes:



     
           ATRIBUTE TYPE               ATRIBUTE VALUE       
    
     Availability                 SUNWcsu                     
    


SEE ALSO
     volcheck(1), mount(1M), rmmount(1M), ioctl(2), attributes(5)




















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