unhide in fstab doesn't work

Peter Torpey · 07-31-2002, 01:51 AM

I have come across a CD ROM that has hidden files that I want to access from within Linux. I added the unhide option to my CD ROM entry in /etc/fstab and inserted the CD. It mounted, but the hidden files are still not displayed. Here is the line from /etc/fstab:

/mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/hdc,fs=iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859 -1,user,unhide 0 0

All the symlinks should be fine as the device does get mounted, it just ignores unhide. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
--Peter

Mik · 07-31-2002, 03:21 AM

There was a big discussion about that. I don't know what the end result is, but I assume it hasn't been changed in the kernel you are using yet.

http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/lin...05.3/0267.html

Basically you need to be root to change the unhide option. You could try something like this as root:

mount -o remount,unhide /mnt/cdrom

Peter Torpey · 08-01-2002, 04:57 AM

Mik, thank you for your response.

I tried:

mnt -o remount,unhide /mnt/cdrom

as Mik has suggested as well as unmounting /mnt/cdrom and remounting it using unhide (as root). Neither of these approaches seems to display the hidden files.
--Peter