08-08-2009
You probably have a typo in the command you are really running. The above command worked okay for me on Solaris 9 running against the /usr tree as a non-priv user.
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volcancel
volcancel(1) User Commands volcancel(1)
NAME
volcancel - cancel user's request for removable media that is not currently in drive
SYNOPSIS
/usr/lib/vold/volcancel [-n] [volume]
DESCRIPTION
volcancel cancels a user's request to access a particular floppy or CD-ROM file system. This command is useful when the removable media
containing the file system is not currently in the drive.
Use the path /vol/rdsk/name_of_volume to specify the volume. If called without a volume name to cancel, volcancel checks for Volume Man-
agement running.
OPTIONS
-n Display the nickname to the device name translation table.
EXAMPLES
Example 1: A sample of the volcancel command.
To cancel a request to access an unnamed CD-ROM, use
example% /usr/lib/vold/volcancel vol/rdsk/unnamed_cdrom
To check if volume management is running, use:
example% /usr/lib/vold/volcancel || echo volmgmt not running
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWvolu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
rmmount(1M), volcheck(1), vold(1M), volmissing(1), rmmount.conf(4), vold.conf(4), attributes(5), volfs(7FS)
SunOS 5.10 7 Apr 1994 volcancel(1)