Mount() and Unmount() command

[Fred vS]

Hello folks.
I dont have finded the command to mount a drive or unmount it.
In delphi it is mount('drive') and unmount('drive').

Is it a other way to mount a drive ?
Thanks

[theo]

There's mount and umount in unit "unixutils".
However I don't know if it runs everywhere, it seems to use libc.

[Fred vS]

Thanks Theo
It dont seem to work on my system.
I have try with a Tprocess and in commandline sudo -a mount but
it does not work after process.execute.
Any ideas ?

[Ocye]

...commandline sudo -a mount

If you want to mount all, the option "-a" should be given after the mount command. Is there any reason why a program should call "mount"? Do you know the automount feature?

[Blaazen]

Hi,

try to look to sources of ACS components, where is also unit for working with cdrom (eject, close tray etc.).
Files: cd_rom.pas and cd_rom.inc
B.

[Fred vS]

Of course i use sudo mount -a and not sudo -a mount.

Is it possible to use -a (for all drives) with the mount() command of unixutils, or something else to mount all drives ?
Thanks

[Fred vS]

Re Hello folk,
I gonna explain what i want.
I have developped a dj mixing prog, you can download it there :
http://members.lycos.co.uk/mixk/
It creates also playlists of tunes, saves the name of file, dir and drive.
If i save a file from a mounted drive (for example NTFS), when i reload the prog without mount NTFS before load, the prog dont recognize NTFS.
Is it possible to Mount all drives in Form.create, so no more problems.

  sorry Ocye, i dont know about the automount feature, how can i use it in Lazarus ?

Thanks
 

[Ocye]

sorry Ocye, i dont know about the automount feature, how can i use it in Lazarus ?

If you insert a CD for instance it is mounted automatically, done by automount. More infos can be found with Google (automount fstab) or here http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/Automount.html.

[Fred vS]

Thanks Ocye but, because i want to developp a prog for all linux dist, i want to mount the driver with a fpc command.
How to mount a driver (when a drive is mounted you can find it in /media/) with a fpc command ?
Thanks

[Fred vS]

Toc,toc, toc, is there somebody ? 
Hem, can somebody help me with my problem of mount with a fpc command ?
I repeat, when you save the path of a mounted file, in Linux the name of drive is from /media.
If i want to mount back that driver, of course it does not exist in /media, how can i know with device  (in /dev) is the corespondent in /media, so i could mount it.

Many Thanks 

[Marc]

fpc doesn't seem to have a (u)mount function

[Fred vS]

Hello Marc.
There's mount() and umount() in unit "unixutils".
But when i will mount() a drive, i shoud mount(device).
An if the drive is mounted, with ExtractFileName(), it give you the name of the mounted device (not the device), directory and file.
Mounted device are in /media, device in /dev.
Then, if i want to load a file with the name saved with ExtractFileName(), and if the drive was not mounted before, it could not load (because not mounted, then not exists in /media).

[Marc]

ahh... it's based on libc and therefore nonexisting imo.
Anyway maybe you can use stat() to get the info