The HD partitions are what is already mounted. The automounter trying to mount the now present media in the CDROM drive is telling you it won't auto mount there because doing so would make what is already mounted there inaccessible. When you click on OK, you are telling the automounter you accept the consequences. On Feb 22, 2013 8:54 PM, "Michael Havens" wrote: > The cd isn't mounted unless I put a disk into it and after I put a disk in > a info window appears saying that 'Location is already mounted.' So please, > tell me, how is changing the mount points of the hd partitions going to fix > the cdrom mount? > :-)~MIKE~(-: > > > On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 8:30 PM, Dazed_75 wrote: > >> Mike, your initial complaint was a message that said something was >> already mounted there. The result of you running the mount command showed >> you what that was. And the first paragraph of the man page says that if >> you go ahead and mount something there any WS at that what was there before >> becomes inn accessible and that permissions for the directory get changed >> as well. >> >> So your entire question has been answered and the way to fix it is >> clear. Change your mount point for those partitions and all will be >> golden. What could possibly still be your question? >> On Feb 22, 2013 6:00 PM, "Michael Havens" wrote: >> >>> yes... I do have things in media. but they are all partitions, not the >>> dvd. >>> :-)~MIKE~(-: >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 5:26 PM, Dazed_75 wrote: >>> >>>> So this clearly shows that you DO have things mounted on /media. >>>> Specifically the bmike1 base which was your experiment to move your data >>>> files elsewhere. Mike, read the first paragraph of prose in the man page >>>> on mount. >>>> On Feb 22, 2013 1:04 PM, "Michael Havens" wrote: >>>> >>>>> no one suggested it but I did run it. >>>>> >>>>> mount >>>>> /dev/sda1 on / type ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro) >>>>> proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) >>>>> sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) >>>>> none on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw) >>>>> none on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw) >>>>> none on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw) >>>>> udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,mode=0755) >>>>> devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620) >>>>> tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,size=10%,mode=0755) >>>>> none on /run/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,size=5242880) >>>>> none on /run/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev) >>>>> none on /run/user type tmpfs >>>>> (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,size=104857600,mode=0755) >>>>> /dev/sda6 on /home type ext4 (rw) >>>>> binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc >>>>> (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) >>>>> gvfsd-fuse on /run/user/bmike1/gvfs type fuse.gvfsd-fuse >>>>> (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=bmike1) >>>>> /dev/sda9 on /media/bmike1/backtrack type ext4 >>>>> (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks2) >>>>> /dev/sda7 on /media/bmike1/entertainment type ext4 >>>>> (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks2) >>>>> /dev/sda8 on /media/bmike1/F3E7-6D4B type vfat >>>>> (rw,nosuid,nodev,uid=1000,gid=1000,shortname=mixed,dmask=0077,utf8=1,showexec,flush,uhelper=udisks2) >>>>> :-)~MIKE~(-: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Carruth, Rusty < >>>>> Rusty.Carruth@smartstoragesys.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> I’m sorry, I haven’t been watching this thread very closely - did >>>>>> anybody ask about doing ‘mount’ to see what it thinks is mounted?**** >>>>>> >>>>>> ** ** >>>>>> >>>>>> Rusty**** >>>>>> >>>>>> ** ** >>>>>> >>>>>> *From:* plug-discuss-bounces@lists.phxlinux.org [mailto: >>>>>> plug-discuss-bounces@lists.phxlinux.org] *On Behalf Of *Michael >>>>>> Havens >>>>>> *Sent:* Friday, February 22, 2013 1:51 PM >>>>>> *To:* Main PLUG discussion list >>>>>> *Subject:* Re: mounts cd twice**** >>>>>> >>>>>> ** ** >>>>>> >>>>>> it was worth a shot!**** >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> **** >>>>>> >>>>>> ** ** >>>>>> >>>>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>>>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>>>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>>>> >>>> >>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>>> >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >