cdmount(8) — AIX PS/2 1.2.1



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cdmount, cdumount



PURPOSE

Mounts and unmounts CD-ROM devices.

SYNTAX


                         +--------+           +---------+
cdmount --- localalias --|        |-- drive --|         |--|
                         +- host -+           +- volid -+

cdmount --|

cdumount --- localalias --|


Note:  This command is for the PS/2 only.

DESCRIPTION

cdmount and cdumount are CD-ROM commands.  In the first form, the cdmount
command informs a CD-ROM server that a particular physical drive will be used,
verifies that a particular CD-ROM volume is present in the drive, and
establishes a local alias for use in naming files on the drive.  The cdmount
command tells the server on the machine specified by the host argument that the
physical device numbered drive should be considered in use.  If no host is
given, the request applies to the local machine.  If the volid argument is
present, the server is expected to verify that the indicated drive contains a
volume (a CD-ROM) with that identification.  Since the volume ID on a CD-ROM is
restricted to uppercase, cdmount translates the supplied name into uppercase
font.  For example:

  cdmount myrom 2 USA_map_data

establishes myrom as an alias for the CD-ROM in physical drive 2 of the local
machine, and verifies it contains a volume labeled "USA_MAP_DATA".  A
subsequent request to access a file might use, for example, /myrom/co/mtns.dat
to access the file CO/MTNS.DAT on that CD-ROM.

The cdmount command with no arguments lists all aliases known on the local
machine.

The cdumount command removes the mapping established by a previous cdmount and
informs the server that the volume is no longer needed.

Note:  cddaemon must be running before cdmount can be executed.




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FILES

/local/cdmtab    Local alias/mount table.

RELATED INFORMATION

See the following command:  "cdlook."
















































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