From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 27 22:19:54 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA20318 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 27 Feb 1997 22:19:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from narcissus.ml.org (root@brosenga.Pitzer.edu [134.173.120.201]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA20313 for ; Thu, 27 Feb 1997 22:19:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (ben@localhost) by narcissus.ml.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA15316; Thu, 27 Feb 1997 22:19:34 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 22:19:34 -0800 (PST) From: Snob Art Genre To: toj@gorilla.net cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mount query In-Reply-To: <199702280549.XAA00400@peeper.jackson.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 27 Feb 1997, Tom Jackson wrote: > > Hi'all > > I don't remember anyone ever asking this before, but who knows. > Two situations: one, you leave your cdrom or removable media out > when you boot up. You want to use it later on without rebooting. > Is this possible? Absolutely. I boot with an audio CD in the drive all the time. It's only during installation that this is an issue. > two, you bootup with one size removable media ( its usable). Later > on you want to change the size of the removable media. Is this > possible, without rebooting? I really hope it is, but am afraid it > isn't. I don't know, but I'd be *very* surprised if you had to reboot. Have you tried it? > Hate to ruin my uptime stats. Anybody know? > -- > Tom Jackson Powered by FreeBSD > toj@gorilla.net http://www.freebsd.org > tjackson@tulsix.utulsa.edu "Out in the Ozone Again" > Ben "You have your mind on computers, it seems."