sahayman@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Steve Hayman) (10/25/89)
I want to add one thing to my question about how do I stick in a disk so that automount won't try to mount it. A few people have suggested doing my own "mount /dev/od0a /my/mount/point" command before inserting the disk. This keeps autodiskmount from taking over (as desired), but it has the side-effect of putting up a dialog box on the screen Please insert new disk for volume 0 (press 'n' key if disk is not available) and I would like to be able to mount my own disk without disturbing whoever is using the workstation at the time. Is there some way you can do a nice quiet "mount" without interrupting the screen with this message? Incidentally, what I'm trying to set up is an archive scheme, so that people using our Vax or other machines can each have their own personal archive optical disk. The idea is that they can run some command on the Vax, walk over to the nearest NeXT and pop in their own disk without disturbing whoever may be using the machine, and a simple script will mount the NeXT's optical and make it available via NFS on the Vax in the user's home directory. I think this could solve a lot of our disk storage problems by giving every user their own 256Mb removable file system, and I have it mostly working already, except for this minor mount annoyance. Thanks to the people who answered so quickly. the net is a useful resource. Steve -- Steve Hayman Workstation Manager Computer Science Department Indiana U. sahayman@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (812) 855-6984