Mount: not a directory WTF?!
 

Whaddup peeps? In a nutshell, I just converted from Fedora Core 1 to Slackware 11 and even though I've only been using it for maybe six hours so far, I already like it better, anyway, whenever I try to mount my cd-rom or cd-rw drives it keeps giving me the same crap:

mount: block device /dev/hdc is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: Not a directory

And then nothing. I'm not going to bother with the whole fstab bs for the moment, I'm trying to mount these drives manually. And I'm root when I try to mount them so I don't wanna hear anything about permissions. My cd-rw drive is on /dev/hdc and my cdrom is /dev/hdd when I try to use mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrw it gives me the same errors. I manually created the /mnt/cdrw directory to mount my cds here and it keeps on giving the same error. I know it can't be the scsi emulation mucking it up because it does this with my cdrom too. Yes they are on the same ide channel, (i don't use scsi or sata, yet) these are run of the mill atapi drives. It's really pissing me off because all of my data is backed up on CD and I need it. I have no other OS on my system, it's just Slackware. So WTF is going on?

fstab is not that difficult and allows you to mount devices frequently without having to type the whole mount command again and again.

Try mounting with the "auto" option for filesystem.

Would you post the command you use to mount the device.
Also look at output of dmesg there might be a clue.

Try mounting in your $HOME directory also.
mkdir cdrom
mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc cdrom

And you don't have any aliases like cdrom or cdrw do you?

Show us the output of:

as well. And for lines like:

Show us the output of:

Okay here's the contents of /etc/fstab fresh from the konsole:


/dev/hda2 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hda1 / reiserfs
/dev/hda3 /home reiserfs defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrw /mnt/cdrw auto noauto,owner,ro 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,owner,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
proc /proc proc defa


As you can see it's already set up for auto fs detection, and it gives me the same bs. this is the command I used just five seconds ago to mount the cd-rw as well as the ouput from that command:

root@darkstar:~# mount -t auto -o unhide /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrw
mount: block device /dev/hdc is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: Not a directory

I've also tried this:

root@darkstar:~# mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom
mount: block device /dev/hdc is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: Not a directory


and this:

root@darkstar:~# ls -ald /mnt/* ; file /mnt/*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 376 2006-09-25 23:09 /mnt/README
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 2006-09-25 21:02 /mnt/cdrecorder/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 2006-10-22 02:22 /mnt/cdrom/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 2006-10-22 02:22 /mnt/cdrw/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 2006-09-25 21:02 /mnt/dvd/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 2002-03-16 02:34 /mnt/floppy/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 2002-03-16 02:34 /mnt/hd/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 2006-09-25 21:02 /mnt/memory/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 2006-09-25 21:03 /mnt/tmp/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 2006-09-25 21:02 /mnt/zip/
/mnt/README: ASCII English text
/mnt/cdrecorder: directory
/mnt/cdrom: directory
/mnt/cdrw: directory
/mnt/dvd: directory
/mnt/floppy: directory
/mnt/hd: directory
/mnt/memory: directory
/mnt/tmp: directory
/mnt/zip: directory


See what I'm getting at? This doesn't make any sense at all, and here, just for the sake of being thorough:

root@darkstar:~# cat /var/log/dmesg
Linux version 2.4.33.3 (root@darkstar) (gcc version 3.4.6) #2 Sat Oct 21 23:07:24 EDT 2006
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 00000000000a0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000007ffc000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 0000000007ffc000 - 0000000007fff000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 0000000007fff000 - 0000000008000000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
127MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 32764
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 28668 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=Linux ro root=301
Found and enabled local APIC!
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 1532.941 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 3060.53 BogoMIPS
Memory: 126796k/131056k available (1728k kernel code, 3876k reserved, 355k data, 100k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: L2 Cache: 256K (64 bytes/line)
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU: After generic, caps: 0383fbff c1cbfbff 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: 0383fbff c1cbfbff 00000000 00000000
CPU: AMD Athlon(TM) XP 1800+ stepping 02
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
enabled ExtINT on CPU#0
ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000
ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000
Using local APIC timer interrupts.
calibrating APIC timer ...
..... CPU clock speed is 1532.9260 MHz.
..... host bus clock speed is 266.5956 MHz.
cpu: 0, clocks: 2665956, slice: 1332978
CPU0<T0:2665952,T1:1332960,D:14,S:1332978,C:2665956>
mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI: Via IRQ fixup
PCI: Using IRQ router VIA [1106/3147] at 00:11.0
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd
VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
parport0: irq 7 detected
i2c-core.o: i2c core module version 2.6.1 (20010830)
i2c-dev.o: i2c /dev entries driver module version 2.6.1 (20010830)
i2c-core.o: driver i2c-dev dummy driver registered.
i2c-algo-bit.o: i2c bit algorithm module
i2c-proc.o version 2.6.1 (20010830)
pty: 512 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
PPP generic driver version 2.4.2
PPP Deflate Compression module registered
PPP BSD Compression module registered
Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 94M
agpgart: Detected Via Apollo Pro KT266 chipset
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xe0000000
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
VP_IDE: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:11.1
VP_IDE: chipset revision 6
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
VP_IDE: VIA vt8233a (rev 00) IDE UDMA133 controller on pci00:11.1
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xb000-0xb007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xb008-0xb00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
hda: Maxtor 4D040H2, ATA DISK drive
hdc: AOPEN CD-RW CRW3248 1.10 20020301, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: EPO CD-ROM CR-840S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: attached ide-disk driver.
hda: host protected area => 1
hda: 80043264 sectors (40982 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=4982/255/63, UDMA(100)
hdc: attached ide-cdrom driver.
hdc: ATAPI 48X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 8192kB Cache, DMA
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
hdd: attached ide-cdrom driver.
hdd: ATAPI 36X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 hda6 >
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
cmpci: version $Revision: 6.16 $ time 23:08:48 Oct 21 2006
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:05.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:09.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:0e.0
cmpci: found CM8738 adapter at io 0xd800 irq 10
cmpci: chip version = 055
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
host/usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 23:08:58 Oct 21 2006
host/usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
PCI: Found IRQ 12 for device 00:09.0
IRQ routing conflict for 00:09.0, have irq 5, want irq 12
host/usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xd400, IRQ 5
host/usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
PCI: Found IRQ 12 for device 00:09.1
IRQ routing conflict for 00:09.1, have irq 11, want irq 12
IRQ routing conflict for 00:0d.0, have irq 11, want irq 12
IRQ routing conflict for 00:0d.1, have irq 11, want irq 12
IRQ routing conflict for 01:00.0, have irq 11, want irq 12
host/usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xd000, IRQ 11
host/usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:11.2
IRQ routing conflict for 00:11.2, have irq 9, want irq 10
IRQ routing conflict for 00:11.3, have irq 9, want irq 10
host/usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xa800, IRQ 9
host/usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:11.3
IRQ routing conflict for 00:11.2, have irq 9, want irq 10
IRQ routing conflict for 00:11.3, have irq 9, want irq 10
host/usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xa400, IRQ 9
host/usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
host/usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
usb.c: registered new driver hiddev
usb.c: registered new driver hid
hid-core.c: v1.8.1 Andreas Gal, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
hid-core.c: USB HID support drivers
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
Linux video capture interface: v1.00
i2c-core.o: driver tv card mixer driver registered.
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
I2O Core - (C) Copyright 1999 Red Hat Software
I2O: Event thread created as pid 12
Linux I2O PCI support (c) 1999 Red Hat Software.
i2o: Checking for PCI I2O controllers...
I2O configuration manager v 0.04.
(C) Copyright 1999 Red Hat Software
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 16384)
Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
FAT: bogus logical sector size 0
FAT: bogus logical sector size 0
reiserfs: found format "3.6" with standard journal
hub.c: new USB device 00:11.2-2, assigned address 2
reiserfs: checking transaction log (device ide0(3,1)) ...
for (ide0(3,1))
input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Logitech Optical USB Mouse] on usb3:2.0
ide0(3,1):Using r5 hash to sort names
VFS: Mounted root (reiserfs filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 100k freed
Adding Swap: 377516k swap-space (priority -1)
reiserfs: found format "3.6" with standard journal
reiserfs: checking transaction log (device ide0(3,3)) ...
for (ide0(3,3))
ide0(3,3):Using r5 hash to sort names

Perhaps I should re-install the OS? (OMG! what a hassle that would be)
I've already recompiled the kernel, (it was necesssary to get my mouse working) but prior to that I had the same troubles. I'd try with a 2.6 kernel but my 2.6 kernels are on, you guessed it, CD. And I don't have broadband so downloading one is out. i think whoever figures this one out should get a golden penguin award or something,

Run dmesg after you get the error. You only need to post the last few lines of dmesg.
dmesg |tail

Also if you try to mount to a non-directory you get a different error:
# mount /dev/hdc file
mount: block device /dev/hdc is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: mount point file is not a directory

That is a different error than you are getting.
mount: Not a directory


So your error is not from mounting to the wrong mount point.

Okay, here you go:

ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
ISOFS: changing to secondary root
ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
ISOFS: changing to secondary root

Change the text highlighted in red in /etc/fstab to the above and then try this
From the command line