Well at the current time my teeth are chattering, its 9 AM and the weather is -10 degrees fahrenheit outside. So this is a quickie for all of you (and this is quite a common problem) that end up putting a CD / DVD into your computer, you need to eather put a new disk in (ex. Multi-disc installers), or just take the disc out but it wont come out… this is how we do it in quick steps.

1. Open up a terminal (blank).
2. Type su, then your root user password.
3. Now type: umount -l /device/location (example: umount -l /media/cdrom)
4. Finally, finish it with the eject command. Just type: eject (and press enter).

Bam! Your disc is out, put in another one or finish what ever you were doing. Its a common question and error, so being a Tutorial Ninja, I decided to clear up that mess.

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