mounts cd twice

Fri Feb 22 23:19:51 MST 2013

I don't understand... the cdrom isn't mounted until I put a disk in. so why
is it saying that it is already mounted? In fstab everything that is
mounted is a hard drive, not the cdrom. Please, I don't want to upset
anyone, I want to understand.
:-)~MIKE~(-:

On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 10:04 PM, Dazed_75 <lthielster at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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" <bmike1 at gmail.com> 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 <lthielster at gmail.com> 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" <bmike1 at gmail.com> 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 <lthielster at gmail.com> 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" <bmike1 at gmail.com> 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 at 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 at lists.phxlinux.org [mailto:
>>>>>>> plug-discuss-bounces at 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!****
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ****
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ** **
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