From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 25 05:22:30 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id FAA29791 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 25 Feb 1996 05:22:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id FAA29786 for ; Sun, 25 Feb 1996 05:22:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id XAA29983; Sun, 25 Feb 1996 23:52:15 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199602251322.XAA29983@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: cd9660 To: World1996@aol.com Date: Sun, 25 Feb 1996 23:52:14 +1030 (CST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <960225025843_230661544@mail06.mail.aol.com> from "World1996@aol.com" at Feb 25, 96 02:58:43 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk World1996@aol.com stands accused of saying: > > I have mounted my CD drive. It works very good except a few problems. One > of which is bothering me. After I do the 'mount -t cd9660 /dev/mcd0 /cdrom' > and it works, I can not swich the CDs unless I unmount it. I do not like > unmounting and remounting every time I want to swich the CD. Why can I not > swich the CD while mounted? How can I make it so I don't need to unmount it? Basically, you can't. Unix doesn't like having filesystems taken away from it without being told first; you'll notice that you can't easily unmount the cdrom if any applications' working directory is on the disk either. I'd be inclined to write a small alias that unmounted and ejected the disk; this would put the two tasks together and remove your severe agitation. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[