On Thu, 03 Aug 2000, Carl Lawton wrote about, Mounting cdrom with writeable mount
point:
> Is it possible to mount a cdrom and keep the write permissions set
> on the mount point.
>
> The mount point gets the permissions set to drwxr-xr-x
>
> If i "mount -w" i get:
>
> mount: block device /dev/cdrom is write-protected, mounting read-only
> mount: block device /dev/cdrom is not permitted on its filesystem
As you see you cant, why not, because only a CDwriter can write a cdrom.
> I can get all the files on the cdrom to maintain write permissions
> but not the directory.
>
> Re-writing the cdrom is not a problem, but i can't rewrite the
> program thats accessing the files and it checks for a writable
> directory when it reads the files in.
Create symbolic links.??????
>
>
> Thanks
> Carl
>
> --
> Carl Lawton
> XKO Software Ltd
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