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Author: Dazed_75
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Subject: Re: mounts cd twice
Oh well, it was a thought
On Feb 22, 2013 10:05 AM, "Michael Havens" <> wrote:

> well, first I looked at mount. cdrom wasn't mounted. then I tried umount
> /dev/cdrom but was informed that /sr0 wasn't mounted. then I checked fstab
> but there was nothing pertaining to this in /etc/fstab .
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 9:39 PM, Dazed_75 <> wrote:
>
>> I could be wrong but my guess is that you already have something mounted
>> on /media/cdrom or /dev/cdrom so when you put the CD in the drive and the
>> automounter sees something is already there it tells you so. I *think *Lisa
>> was telling you the same thing but by giving you the solution to test.
>> umount it BEFORE putting the CD in. If that solves the problem, you can
>> look at things like fstab to see what is being mounted by default. I bet
>> you look at it and suddenly remember one of your experiments.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 7:40 PM, Michael Havens <> wrote:
>>
>>> but why is it mounted twice?
>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 7:24 PM, John J. Macey <>wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> umount /dev/cdrom
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Lisa,
>>>>
>>>> That is eloquently simply put it is almost ZEN.
>>>>
>>>> John
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 02/21/2013 05:36 PM, Lisa Kachold wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> umount /dev/cdrom
>>>>>
>>>>
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