Re: GLUG: CD Mounting in RH6.x

["Andrew McGill" <andrewm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

A generic solution to the forced unmount is to mount the cdrom via NFS:

mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/private/cdrom
mount localhost:/mnt/private/cdrom /cdrom

NFS access doesn't lock the CD-ROM, so you can then mount and unmount
/mnt/private/cdrom to your heart's content -- as long as you use only the
mirror at /cdrom

Gotchas:  You need to edit /etc/exports, and have nfs running.  It's also a
possible security hole, since unpriveleged users on the local machine will
have easy access.  The biggest gotcha is that I haven't tried it.

&:-)

----- Original Message -----
From: <hans_h@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <glug@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday 31 May 2000 08:55
Subject: GLUG: CD Mounting in RH6.x


Hi all,

I have several Redhat 6.1 and 6.2 machines here at the office with
assorted hardware.  They all have a peculiar problem and I was hoping
one of you had seen it before;

I can mount a CD-ROM normally and use it normally.  Whenever I try to
unmount it tells me the device is busy.  I am not in the mounted folder
and there is no data transfer taking place, the CD isn't even spinning.
 I have tried umount -f but it still tells me the device is busy and
doesnt unmount it.  The only way to get the CD out is to fource the
drive open or to reboot the machine.

Could this have anything to do with the 'automount' functionality of
RH6.x?  If so, where do I start to look for settings for this?  Anybody
else getting this?

Hans

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