On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 12:29:06AM +0530, Vinod Bhaskar wrote: > Hi Bish, > > I have these two lines in fstab. > > none /mnt/cdrom supermount > dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 > none /mnt/floppy supermount > dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 > ---end quoted text---
My guess is that you are using mandrake or one of the newer distros which by default uses supermount for removeable media. I have not used supermount extensively enough to comment. AFAIK, normally, when you mount a filesystem, you create a direct connection between a mount point in the directory tree and a filesystem on a block device. Supermount adds an extra layer in between; with supermount, you explicitly mount the pseudo-filesystem (the "superfilesystem") on the mount point, and supermount then automatically mounts the real filesystem (the "subfilesystem") on the block device when needed. Your problem could be at this supermount level (possibly, just a corrupt or incompletely installed supermount) or a non-funct- ional superfilesystem. Re-installing supermount may help. My suggestion is to just comment out these lines in fstab by just placing # before them. Then, manually put in fresh fstab entries by the direct method suggested by others. fstab entries follow the following convention: # Device Mountpoint Type Option dump pass /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user 0 0 Try a command line mount before you set this. HTH Bish -- : ####[ GNU/Linux One Stanza Tip (LOST) ]####################### Sub : Slackware package update tool (swaret) LOST #499 Looking for a apt-get equivalent for Slackware ? Try "swaret" http://freshmeat.net/projects/swaret/ This is a bash script. It uses wget and rsync for fetching the packages from the Slackware mirror chosen. ####[shridhar_daithankar (at) nospam.persistent.co.in]######## : ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
