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Article #2236Re: fstab entry for a CDROM
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Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 18:16
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 18:16
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Brian Lakeman (lakeman@drifter.acm.ndsu.NoDak.edu) wrote: : I'm going to export my cdrom to other machine on the network, but the : cdrom is ejected everytime someone logs off of the console. I tried : copying the fstab entry I get from 'mount -p' into /etc/fstab and loading : that, but that didn't work. I tried mounting it from a shell, but I had : no success. : : Any help would be greatly appreciated. : : -Bri : Try this: While no one is logged in, insert the CD. Now log in over the net and do an explicit mount where you want it. This should stay put. Warning: To date I've not found a way to disable the eject button. If another Unix box has the cd mounted by nfs, things can get sticky if you eject a disk that someone else is looking at. Good candidates for automounts. -- => Sherwood Botsford sherwood@space.ualberta.ca <= => University of Alberta Lab Manager, Space Physics Group <= => tel:403 492-3713 fax: 403 492-4256 <=
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!gatech!destroyer!cs.ubc.ca!alberta!kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca!sherwood From: sherwood@space.ualberta.ca (System Administrator) Subject: Re: fstab entry for a CDROM Message-ID: <1993Jan6.181655.18686@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> Sender: news@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca Nntp-Posting-Host: fenris.space.ualberta.ca Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6] References: <C0E0Kx.Fqs@ns1.nodak.edu> Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 18:16:55 GMT Lines: 22