JAZ drives on Adaptec 2940s

Dave Meyer dmeyer at std.saic.com
Fri Mar 13 10:15:04 PST 1998


At Fri, 13 Mar 1998 12:30:05 EST, "Robert G. Brown" wrote:
>These sound like better solutions; I encountered the problem when trying
>to boot with an msdos fs cartridge in when I had an ext2 mount in the
>fstab (didn't like that, it didn't).  In the configuration you suggest,
>one would have two mount points (e.g. /jazext2 and /jazmsdos), two
>entries to mount /dev/sdbX on one or the other but noauto, and then a
>user could type in e.g. mount /jazext2 or /jazmsdos from userspace?
>
>Does your final remark mean that the same user cannot just
>
>umount /jazext2
> (change disks)
>mount /jazmsdos
>
>or is it darker and deeper than that?

My final remark about not being able to unmount only applied to 
using autofs to automount the jaz disk, not to the /etc/fstab solution. 
The umount /jazext2 followed by mount /jazmsdos should work just fine 
as long as both entries in fstab are "noauto,user".

	Dave

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Dave Meyer
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