Hi, i wrote: > > mount -v /dev/sdc /wa1 > > echo $?
Duh. "/dev/sdb2", not "/dev/sdc". (Do as i mean, not as i write.) Dennis Wicks wrote: > I'll put a note in my fstab so the next time I boot I can find it if the > mount fails again! Did i miss the report about some miracle cure beyond the link to /wa11 ? I did a search for "wa1" in Linux kernel git. https://github.com/torvalds/linux/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=wa1&type= The name seems not to be hardcoded there. So my best guess is that it is mistaken by mount(8) for something other than a target path. This opportunity to be mistaken could be excluded by a test program which uses mount(2). I tested this program "ts_mount.c": ------------------------------------------------------------------------- #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <sys/mount.h> #include <errno.h> #include <string.h> int main() { int ret; ret = mount("/dev/sr4", "/mnt/iso", "iso9660", MS_RDONLY, ""); if(ret == 0) { printf("Success\n"); exit(0); } printf("Failed\n"); printf("errno= %d (%s)\n", errno, strerror(errno)); exit(1); } ------------------------------------------------------------------------- with a DVD drive by: cc -g -Wall -o ts_mount ts_mount.c ./ts_mount As normal user i got Failed errno= 1 (Operation not permitted) and as superuser Success Drive noise and listed files confirm the optimistic message. Without medium i get Failed errno= 123 (No medium found) Have a nice day :) Thomas
