Re: Problem on mounting CD...

[Bob Nielsen <nielsen@primenet.com>]

On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, Felix Almeida wrote:

> 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

I have the following for an IDE cd-rom:

/dev/hdc      /mnt/cdrom        iso9660 defaults,noauto,user 0 0

This works fine for me.  Try specifying /dev/scd0 instead of the symbolic
link in fstab.

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