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Solaris™ 8 System Administrator's Reference
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Solaris™ 8 System Administrator's Reference

by Janice Winsor
September 2000
Beginner content levelBeginner
1312 pages
33h 47m
English
Pearson
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rmmount — Removable Media Mounter for CD-ROM and Diskette

Synopsis

/usr/sbin/rmmount [-D]

Description

The rmmount command is a removable media mounter that Volume Management executes whenever a CD-ROM or diskette is inserted. The Volume Management daemon, vold(1M), manages CD-ROM and diskette devices. You can also use rmmount by calling volrmmount(1).

On insertion, rmmount determines what type of file system (if any) is on the media. If a file system is present, rmmount mounts the file system in one of the following locations.

Mount LocationState of Media
/floppy/floppy0
 Symbolic link to mounted diskette in local diskette drive.
/floppy/floppy_name
 Mounted named diskette.
/floppy/unnamed_floppy
 Mounted unnamed diskette.
/cdrom/cdrom0
 Symbolic link ...
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