[expert] locked /mnt dir

2000-12-12 Thread Michael Powell PhD
I hope someone has had this happen, or know how to undo it. After a long time from a clean install (retail) all the sudden the devices in my /mnt (ie. cdrom, cdrom2,disk,floppy) had little locks on the mnt directories and I can't get in them...says I don't have access rights, and it won't let

Re: [expert] locked /mnt dir

2000-12-12 Thread Dave Sherman
Have you looked in /etc/fstab ? That's where the definitions are for those devices, one line of text per device. 'man fstab' for information on the syntax. Dave At 09:28 AM 12/12/2000 -0500, you wrote: I hope someone has had this happen, or know how to undo it. After a long time from a clean

Re: [expert] locked /mnt dir

2000-12-12 Thread Praedor Tempus
I could use that answer too. Same thing happened to me last night - trying to access my cdrom as a user, it told me I didn't have access rights. As root, I would simply get an input/output error message. I could mount and unmount cdrom but not access it (It was a supermount drive). I