Re: Problem on mounting CD...

[tgakem@chem.tue.nl]

> 
> Hi!
> 
>   I've been tried to allow the normal users in my system to mount a CD-ROM
> but with no success... I even put the following line in my /etc/fstab:
> 
>     /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 ro,noauto,user,unhide 0 0
> 
>   Where /dev/cdrom is a symbolic link to /dev/scd0. My /cdrom directory
> has the following permitions: 
> 
>     drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root         1024 Apr 11 10:23 /cdrom/
> 
>   The problem is that the users can mount the CD but cannot umount it! The
> "mount /cdrom" works fine but "umount /cdrom" gives the error message: 
> 
>     umount:  /cdrom mount disagrees with the fstab

Hm, strange.  I've got the following line working in my fstab (it's not
scsi though):
/dev/hdd            /cdrom           iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto 0 0

permissions are
drwxrwsr-x   2 root     cdrom        1024 Sep 14  1995 /cdrom/

Does this help?

Eric Meijer


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