fstab missing line
Aaron Konstam
akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Sun Apr 30 22:45:45 UTC 2006
On Sun, 2006-04-30 at 15:29 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote:
> Nader Mirzaee wrote:
> >
> >
> > > Nader Mirzaee wrote:
> > >> Hello all
> > >>
> > >> i seem to miss one line in the fstab in my FC5 machine . my cdrom
> > >> drive doesn't function in linux .this is my fstab:
> > >>
> > >> /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3
> > >> defaults 1 1
> > >> LABEL=/boot /boot ext3
> > >> defaults 1 2
> > >> devpts /dev/pts devpts
> > >> gid=5,mode=620 0 0
> > >> tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs
> > >> defaults 0 0
> > >> proc /proc proc
> > >> defaults 0 0
> > >> sysfs /sys sysfs
> > >> defaults 0 0
> > >> /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap
> > >> defaults 0 0
> > >> /dev/hda5 /mnt/windows ntfs
> > >> ro,defaults,umask=0222 0 0
> > >>
> > >> what should i add to it ?
> > >>
> > >>----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > >> PC-to-Phone calls for ridiculously low rates.
> > > Fstab doesn't handle CD-rom in FC5. This is the job of hald I
> > believe.
> > > -Dan
> > >
> >
> > That's fine but I had no CD drive until I changed fstab on both FC-5
> > computers here?
> >
> > Obviously there's something going on that's not obvious to me ...
> >
> > Bob Goodwin Zuni, Virginia w2bod
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > could you tell me more about what you "changed"!
> >
> Yes I added:
>
> /dev/hdc /media/cdrecorder auto defaults 0 0
>
> and made a directory:
>
> /media/cdrecorder
>
> However this may not be the correct way to deal with the problem, it was
> just my solution.
> >
This is the whole point . You should not have to do that in FC5.
What function of CD access do you not see without that line in fstab?
--
Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net>
More information about the fedora-list
mailing list