Commands Reference, Volume 1

cdeject Command

Purpose

Ejects a media from a CD drive managed by the cdromd daemon.

Syntax

Description

The cdeject command sends an appropriate command to the cdromd daemon which unmounts (if necessary) the file system corresponding to the specified device and ejects the media from the drive specified by DeviceName.

Flags

-h or -?	Displays the command usage message.
-q	Specifies silent mode: Doesn't print any information or error message.
DeviceName	Specifies the name of the device.

Exit Status

This command returns the following exit values:

0: No error.
>0: An error occurred.

Examples

To eject a media from cd0 enter:
```
cdeject cd0
```
To eject a media from cd1 without any printed error messages,enter:
```
cdeject -q cd1
```

Related Information

The cdcheck command, cdmount command, cdromd daemon, cdumount command, cdutil command.

The cdromd.conf file format.