How to open and close the CD DVD tray
You can open/close the CD, DVD disk tray from the command line.
Many Linux users already know about the eject command for opening the disk tray:
How do you close the tray?
Turns out that you can use the same eject command but with an additional -t option to close the tray.
Before I found out about the -t option, I always had to reach and press the open/close button on the drive to close the tray. With the -t option, you can now both open and close the tray from the command line.
There is another option -T (CAPITAL T, that is) you should know.
eject -T basically closes the tray if it is open, and opens the tray if it is closed.
The man page for eject has detailed explanation about the options.
Many Linux users already know about the eject command for opening the disk tray:
$ eject
How do you close the tray?
Turns out that you can use the same eject command but with an additional -t option to close the tray.
$ eject -t
Before I found out about the -t option, I always had to reach and press the open/close button on the drive to close the tray. With the -t option, you can now both open and close the tray from the command line.
There is another option -T (CAPITAL T, that is) you should know.
eject -T basically closes the tray if it is open, and opens the tray if it is closed.
The man page for eject has detailed explanation about the options.