On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 15:20:43 +0000, Stroller wrote: > A Google seems to suggest that "mount: No buffer space available" is > commonly returned when the device is already mounted.
Oh, I wasn't finding that or didn't know how to interpret it. > The manpage for `mount` indicates that `mount -a` will mount all devices > listed in /etc/fstab, so your output suggests to me that the CD drives > are mounted when you issue this command - no wonder they fail when you > try to mount them again separately! Yes, I concur with everything above. However, I guess I left out the fact that there's a disc in each drive; the discs are readable. arrakis ~ # arrakis ~ # mount -a arrakis ~ # arrakis ~ # mount /dev/hdb3 on / type ext3 (rw,noatime) proc on /proc type proc (rw) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec) udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,nosuid) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec) /dev/hdb1 on /boot type ext2 (rw) none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 on /mnt/VolGroup00/LogVol00 type ext3 (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,devmode=0664,devgid=85) arrakis ~ # arrakis ~ # mount -va && df && mount -v /mnt/cdrom mount: /dev/hdb1 already mounted on /boot mount: none already mounted on /dev/shm mount: /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 already mounted on /mnt/VolGroup00/ LogVol00 mount: proc already mounted arrakis ~ # arrakis ~ # ll /mnt/ total 20 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Oct 7 00:17 VolGroup00 drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Jul 26 02:54 cdrom drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 22 00:37 cdrom1 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 21 23:54 cdrw1 drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Jul 26 02:54 floppy arrakis ~ # arrakis ~ # ll /mnt/cdrom total 0 arrakis ~ # arrakis ~ # ll /mnt/cdrom1 total 0 arrakis ~ # arrakis ~ # ll /mnt/cdrw1 total 0 arrakis ~ # arrakis ~ # thanks, Thufir -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
