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lecholet
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 Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2002 5:10 am Post subject: why mount locks the cdrom drive? |
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When you mount a cdrom drive, the mount utility locks the drive so you cant eject the disk inside by pressing the eject button on the drive. Why is that? It seems to me that it would be simplier not to do so cause then you will not be force to unmount the device before ejecting the disc, right? Is this a security feature? can the system read the disc even if the device is not lock?
My question is if i go on and edit the code in the mount's sources so that mount doest lock the device anymore, will it work? Will my system be stable?
Geez, seems like a hard one to me!
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fuxored
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| You could try supermount. It mounts and unmounts devices automagically. Anytime you try to access a drive it will mount it, press eject and it will unmount and eject automatically. Same as you would be used to in windows. |
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Robert
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| Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2002 8:10 pm Post subject: Re: why mount locks the cdrom drive? |
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| lecholet wrote: | | When you mount a cdrom drive, the mount utility locks the drive so you cant eject the disk inside by pressing the eject button on the drive. Why is that? |
If you remove a mounted filesystem without unmounting it, and the OS attempts to access that filesystem. you will get some nasty I/O errors. As previously mentioned supermount will provide the type of behavior you are after. |
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