From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Dec 23 16:44:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.ct.home.com (ha1.rdc1.ct.home.com [24.2.0.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B1AF14D34 for ; Thu, 23 Dec 1999 16:44:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tsikora@home.com) Received: from home.com ([24.2.168.186]) by mail.rdc1.ct.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.07 201-229-111-110) with ESMTP id <19991224004413.IMHQ9446.mail.rdc1.ct.home.com@home.com> for ; Thu, 23 Dec 1999 16:44:13 -0800 Message-ID: <38627B7C.A5CC60CD@home.com> Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 14:43:56 -0500 From: Ted Sikora Reply-To: tsikora@powerusersbbs.com Organization: Jtl Development X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; U; OpenBSD 2.6 i386) X-Accept-Language: en-US,en-GB MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Stable Subject: Re: CDROM mount problems! References: <199912231414.JAA53041@rr.gfoster.com> <38623ACE.6042C690@home.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Brad Knowles wrote: > > At 10:07 AM -0500 1999/12/23, Ted Sikora wrote: > > >> # mount -t cd9660 -o rdonly /dev/acd0a /cdrom > > It worked! Strange ..without the -o rdonly flag it would not. > > That's exactly what's supposed to happen. Normally, when a > system mounts a filesystem, it wants to mount it read/write so that > it can update the "atime" stamp for any files that may be accessed. > Obviously, you can't do this on a CD-ROM, so you need to explicitly > tell the system to mount it read-only. > > You probably would have gotten more helpful (and less curt) > answers if you had first gone to -questions with this. > Thanks, I appreciate the help. As you can tell I am new to the FreeBSD mailists. I'll learn... I hope! -- Ted Sikora Jtl Development Group tsikora@powerusersbbs.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message