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- From: sherwood@space.ualberta.ca (System Administrator)
- Subject: Re: fstab entry for a CDROM
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- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 18:16:55 GMT
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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.
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