topic Re: Automount cdrom on HP-UX 11i in Operating System - HP-UX

Automount cdrom on HP-UX 11i

HDgio — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 02:45:42 GMT

Hi
Can I Automatically mount a cdrom when inserted it.
Thanks to all

Re: Automount cdrom on HP-UX 11i

Peter Godron — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 02:54:32 GMT

Hi,
a not very helpful thread, but a good start:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=106562

and one that explains why there is no automount as on Solaris:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=208516

You either have to write a daemon / background job or do it manually.

Re: Automount cdrom on HP-UX 11i

Peter Nikitka — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 08:25:17 GMT

Hi,

you really can do it with the automounter.
1) Add this to /etc/auto_master
/local /etc/auto.local

2) Content of /etc/auto.local:
cdrom -fstype=cdfs,rr,ro :/dev/cdrom
dvd -fstype=cdfs,cdcase,ro :/dev/cdrom

Change /dev/cdrom according to your needs (/dev/dsk/c0t2d0) or add a (hard) link of device to /dev/cdrom (like I did).

3)
So if you access /local/cdrom or /local/dvd the medium gets mounted with these options, this can be done by every user.

I additionally changed the inactivity time of the whole automouter process to three minutes (default: 10) in adding
-t 180
at startup of automount process.

mfG Peter

Re: Automount cdrom on HP-UX 11i

HDgio — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 08:41:39 GMT

Thanks to all