Automating mounting of ISO images
four.harrisons at googlemail.com
four.harrisons at googlemail.com
Thu Mar 24 16:28:05 UTC 2011
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On 3/23/11 2:49 PM, Ryan Coleman wrote:
> I have a folder full of ISOs that we're sharing on the network instead of having the discs available (seems like a good idea, right?)
>
> But I want to automate the process on boot instead of having to write a static script to do the work.
>
> Disc images are located in /mount/disc_images/ (all are ISOs)
> They need to mount into /mount/office_files/images/FILENAME [without the .iso extension]
>
> How can I do this? I've always been given these types of scripts in the past at an old job but I don't have access to those examples anymore.
Hi Ryan,
You can put something like this in /etc/rc.conf to get the device files
created automatically:
mdconfig_md0="-t vnode -f /mount/disc_images/Image1.iso"
mdconfig_md1="-t vnode -f /mount/disc_images/Image2.iso"
mdconfig_md2="-t vnode -f /mount/disc_images/Image3.iso"
Because these devices (/dev/md0, /dev/md1, /dev/md2) will be created
before /etc/fstab is processed, you can then add the following entries
in that file:
/dev/md0 /mount/office_files/images/Image1 cd9660 ro 0 0
/dev/md1 /mount/office_files/images/Image2 cd9660 ro 0 0
/dev/md2 /mount/office_files/images/Image3 cd9660 ro 0 0
Check out the rc(8) man page (http://bit.ly/fuwn5n) for more information
about how the startup scripts work, as well as the one that processes
the device creation directives above - /etc/rc.d/mdconfig
Finally, you can always add your own custom startup scripts to
/usr/local/etc/rc.d if you need to do something that the standard
startup scripts can't handle.
Hope that helps,
Greg
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