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NAME="MOUNTING-AND-UNMOUNTING"
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>9.1. Mounting and Unmounting (Floppy/CDROM/Hard-drive Partitions)</H1
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>Allowing Users to mount partitions</B
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> </TD
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>By default a <SPAN
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> system will allow normal users to unmount partitions. However unless given permission by the superuser, users will not be allowed to mount partitions. </P
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>The commands listed below will not work for normal users unless users have permission to mount that device.</P
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>If your particular distribution is setup not to allow users to mount partitions its not very hard to change this, simply edit the <EM
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>/etc/fstab</EM
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> file (as root) and:</P
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>Replace the word "defaults" with "user" or</PRE
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>Add "user" to the end of the options list for the particular partition(s).</PRE
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>mount</DT
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>Mount a device. Attach the device to the file-system hierarchy (the tree ( / )). This needs to be done so you can access the drive (see below, <A
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>Section 9.1</A
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> for an example).</P
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>umount</DT
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>'Unmount' a device. The command <EM
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>umount</EM
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> (no 'n') unmount's a device. It removes it from the file-system hierarchy (the tree ( / )). This needs to be done before you remove a floppy/CDROM or any other removable device (see below, <A
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>Section 9.1</A
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> for an example).</P
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>smbmount<EFBFBD>//wincomp/c<>/mnt/win</DT
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>Where “win” would be the place you want it mounted and “wincomp” is the IP address or name of your windows computer.</P
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>Please note</B
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>Using ping/smbmount/ssh or other <SPAN
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> system programs with a computer name rather than IP address will only work if you have the computer listed in your /etc/hosts file. Here is an example:</P
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>192.168.1.100 new </PRE
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> This line says that their is a computer called “new” with IP address 192.168.1.100. Now that it exists in the /etc/hosts file I don't have to type the IP address anymore, just the name “new”.</P
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>smbmount</EM
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> is a tool from the samba package, it can mount a remote windows file-system onto your current computer.</P
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>Un-mounting uses the same syntax as 'umount', as listed above, or you may like to use:</P
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>smbumount /mountpoint</PRE
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>Here are some more examples of how to mount a file-system:</P
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>mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy <A
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mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom <A
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mount -t iso /tmp/image_file /mnt/iso_file/ -o loop <A
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> The windows filesystem is known as vfat (standard on <SPAN
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> 9x) or NFTS (standard on <SPAN
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> 2000 and XP).
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</DD
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HREF="mounting-and-unmounting.html#CDROM"
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> for CDROM's
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> This will mount an image file (usually a CD image file) so you can view/change the files (it will appear to be like any other device).
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>The -t option</B
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>On any system running a newer version of the <SPAN
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> kernel the <EM
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>-t</EM
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> option is not always necessary and can be left out.</P
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>Examples of how to unmount a file-system (necessary before you eject/remove disk):</P
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>An example unmount point could be “/mnt/floppy” or “/mnt/cdrom”</P
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