what's removing my cdrom link?

[James Wilkinson]

Douglas Frank wrote:
> /dev/hdc is my cdrom.  But, the player looks for /dev/cdrom.
> 
> So of course I set up a link, /dev/cdrom pointing to /dev/hdc.  Works 
> fine... UNTIL I reboot, and discover the link's gone.
> 
> What's rm'ing the link to hdc?  On the assumption that it happens during 
> boot (as opposed to when shutting down), I disabled kudzu but that made 
> no difference, /dev/cdrom still disappears.

On FC3 /dev is a tmpfs filesystem which isn't permanently stored to
disk. It's recreated each time Fedora boots.

Do you have the latest udev RPM installed? Do you have any other
symlinks in /dev pointing at /dev/hdc?

What are the contents of /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/info ?

James.

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