Mounting second part of the cdrom
Travis Waalkens
traviswaalkens at cox.net
Mon Sep 20 03:52:48 UTC 2004
On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 06:37 +0300, Andrey Andreev wrote:
> Travis Waalkens wrote:
> >
> > I found a site that told me to do this:
> > [root at localhost travis]# mount /mnt/cdrom -o session=2
> >
> > but it says as an error.
> > mount: /dev/cdrom already mounted or /mnt/cdrom busy
> > mount: according to mtab, /dev/hdc is already mounted on /mnt/cdrom
>
> Well the error message says that /dev/cdrom is already mounted, which
> means what it says :)
>
> To unmount it, try first as root
>
> umount /dev/cdrom
>
> When issuing the command, take care that you're none of your shells is
> in /mnt/cdrom, and that nautilus or konq or whatever does not have
> anything under /mnt/cdrom open, or you will get a device busy error.
>
> After you unmount /dev/cdrom you can try the line you originally tried.
>
> Tip: you can always check what's mounted and where by running
>
> mount
>
> without parameters.
>
> Greets,
>
> //Andro
>
> --
> Andrey Andreev
> University of Helsinki
> Dept. of Computer Science
>
>
Ok tried the umount
it worked I managed to unmount the drive
but when I remounted it even using the session=2 switch it still only
showed the same list I originally posted.
Grrrrrrr this is realy getting frustrating
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