From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 4 06:22:22 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D25B616A4CE; Mon, 4 Apr 2005 06:22:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: from abigail.blackend.org (blackend.org [212.11.35.229]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0CDD43D31; Mon, 4 Apr 2005 06:22:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from marc@blackend.org) Received: from abigail.blackend.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) j346MKMw039705; Mon, 4 Apr 2005 08:22:20 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marc@abigail.blackend.org) Received: (from marc@localhost) by abigail.blackend.org (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id j346MKEe039704; Mon, 4 Apr 2005 08:22:20 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marc) Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 08:22:20 +0200 From: Marc Fonvieille To: Josh Paetzel Message-ID: <20050404062220.GB39413@abigail.blackend.org> References: <200504031600.27612.josh@tcbug.org> <20050403213555.GB777@zaphod.nitro.dk> <200504031657.44955.josh@tcbug.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200504031657.44955.josh@tcbug.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Useless-Header: blackend.org X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.10-PRERELEASE cc: doc@freebsd.org cc: "Simon L. Nielsen" Subject: Re: Handbook: 16.7 Creating and Using Optical Media (DVDs) X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2005 06:22:22 -0000 On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 04:57:44PM -0500, Josh Paetzel wrote: > On Sunday 03 April 2005 16:35, Simon L. Nielsen wrote: > > On 2005.04.03 16:00:27 -0500, Josh Paetzel wrote: > > > I've come across some data DVDs that require me to do: > > > mount_cd9660 -s 0 /dev/acd0 /cdrom where /dev/acd0 is my > > > DVD-ROM and /cdrom is the mount-point (obviously) > > > > It sounds more like a bug in the cd9660 fs to me, or is known that > > it can't be fixed? > > The -s switch is documented in the mount_cd9660 man page. There are > no examples that are specific to DVD's in the man page however. > > There are no PR's for this issue that I can find. It is odd though, I > can't be the first person to ever mount a data DVD. There are > several posts in the -questions archives but none of them seem to > get the issue resolved. > If you need to pass "special" option to mount a data DVD/CD, it means the filesystem on the media has some "issues" or is not really "compliant". This should be marginal. If we need to document it, we just have to update a bit the mount_cd9660 manual page to say that issue is media independant and -s 0 may be required by some "weird" data CD/DVD/whatever that refuse to be mounted. Marc