Re: VFS: Disk change detected on device sr(11,0) ???

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 19 Oct 1999 22:00:16 +0100 (BST)


> Yes, that seems to have fixed it.
>
> Doesn't seem to be any man pages on it.
> Could you happen to tell me what it is and what package it's part of?

Its the "magicdev" package. It is part of the Gnome gmc setup and detects
disk changes and can do stuff like playing audio cd's on insertion and mounting
cdroms.

Some drives seem to keep reporting 'media changed' again and again when empty
or open.

> Is it safe to rename it to something else,
> ex: /usr/bin/magicdev.notused?

Sure. Or rpm -e magicdev

Alan

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