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So apparently you can just, type the word eject into bash and it will pop open your disk drive (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 2 days ago by TheGingerNut@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I've been using linux for more than a decade at this point, but in all that time I've rarely had a disk drive. The fact that this command exists and is just, one of the core utils included with your distro along with su and kill and mount and more is just… so beautiful. 10 years amore with this OS and I'm still learning things that the elders in the audience are snickering at me for only learning 5 minutes ago while they were popping their disk trays open with a single command back when disk drives were a non optional component.

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[–] communism@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I still have a disk drive but eject doesn't seem to affect it since for some reason I don't have a /dev/cdrom. I just checked with the physical eject button on the drive and it is at least still physically working—the tray ejects! I don't have any optical media to test if the drive still works to read CDs though

[–] crater2150@feddit.org 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Try eject /dev/sr0, that should be your disk drive if it is attached via SATA or USB. /dev/cdrom is usually just a symlink.

[–] communism@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Afraid I don't have a /dev/sr0. Tbh I built this PC yonks ago, I don't remember how I plugged in my optical drive. I assume SATA would be the sensible and most likely option.

I'm on Artix Linux with runit if that matters at all?

I mean, it doesn't matter to me whether or not I can eject my optical drive with a command, but at this point I'm just curious as to where the drive is on the filesystem lol

Edit: I tried loading sr_mod with modprobe sr_mod (which wasn't loaded for me) but still not seeing any sr* or cdrom in /dev. Again, not too bothered about this, but I'm kinda curious.

[–] zzx@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Connected power but not SATA maybe?

[–] communism@lemmy.ml 1 points 15 hours ago

Maybe? I remember I have used it to read optical discs before (on Linux too) and I don't think I've unplugged anything

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