*- On 25 Jun, Alex McCool wrote about "cdrom and mnt directories"
> How does one create new mount point directories?
> I have three CDROM drives I want to share via samba, but only one cdrom
> directory.
>
There is nothing special about the 'cdrom' directory. You can mount
your cdrom over the /floppy directory if you want. It is just an
placeholder for the sytems to place the mounted filesystem. You can
make the names whatever you want and put them anywhere you want.
mkdir /cdrom2
mkdir /cdrom3
mkdir /<whatever-you-want-to-call-it>
or
mkdir /cdrom/1
mkdir /cdrom/2
mkdir /cdrom/3
Then mount under this as 'mount -t iso9660 /dev/<cdrom1> /cdrom/1'
'mount -t iso9660 /dev/<cdrom2> /cdrom/2'
The directories are not anything special. In fact they can be full of
files. If you mount over the top of them then the contents of the
mounted filesytem will be there instead of the real directory contents.
When you unmount the filesystem you will be able to access the contents
of the real directory again. See 'man 8 mount' for details.
--
Brian
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