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From: Thufir <hawat.thufir@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: mount cdrom: No buffer space available
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 16:10:47
Message-Id: fi499s$8a0$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] mount cdrom: No buffer space available by Stroller
1 On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 15:20:43 +0000, Stroller wrote:
2
3 > A Google seems to suggest that "mount: No buffer space available" is
4 > commonly returned when the device is already mounted.
5
6 Oh, I wasn't finding that or didn't know how to interpret it.
7
8 > The manpage for `mount` indicates that `mount -a` will mount all devices
9 > listed in /etc/fstab, so your output suggests to me that the CD drives
10 > are mounted when you issue this command - no wonder they fail when you
11 > try to mount them again separately!
12
13 Yes, I concur with everything above. However, I guess I left out the
14 fact that there's a disc in each drive; the discs are readable.
15
16
17 arrakis ~ #
18 arrakis ~ # mount -a
19 arrakis ~ #
20 arrakis ~ # mount
21 /dev/hdb3 on / type ext3 (rw,noatime)
22 proc on /proc type proc (rw)
23 sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec)
24 udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,nosuid)
25 devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec)
26 /dev/hdb1 on /boot type ext2 (rw)
27 none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
28 /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 on /mnt/VolGroup00/LogVol00 type ext3
29 (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
30 usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs
31 (rw,noexec,nosuid,devmode=0664,devgid=85)
32 arrakis ~ #
33 arrakis ~ # mount -va && df && mount -v /mnt/cdrom
34 mount: /dev/hdb1 already mounted on /boot
35 mount: none already mounted on /dev/shm
36 mount: /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 already mounted on /mnt/VolGroup00/
37 LogVol00
38 mount: proc already mounted
39 arrakis ~ #
40 arrakis ~ # ll /mnt/
41 total 20
42 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Oct 7 00:17 VolGroup00
43 drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Jul 26 02:54 cdrom
44 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 22 00:37 cdrom1
45 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 21 23:54 cdrw1
46 drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Jul 26 02:54 floppy
47 arrakis ~ #
48 arrakis ~ # ll /mnt/cdrom
49 total 0
50 arrakis ~ #
51 arrakis ~ # ll /mnt/cdrom1
52 total 0
53 arrakis ~ #
54 arrakis ~ # ll /mnt/cdrw1
55 total 0
56 arrakis ~ #
57 arrakis ~ #
58
59
60 thanks,
61
62 Thufir
63
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