fstab missing line
Bob Goodwin
bobgoodwin at wildblue.net
Tue May 2 00:24:51 UTC 2006
Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 11:22 -0500, Jeff Vian wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 09:17 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote:
>>
>>> Aaron Konstam wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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:
>>>>>>
>> snip
>>
>>
>>>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>>> 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?
>>>>
>>>>
>>> I don't recall the precise sequence of events but no doubt I attempted
>>> to "mount /dev/hdc" and the cd to "/media/cdrecorder" as I am accustomed
>>> to doing since FC4 and trying to look at a directory listing ...
>>>
>>> I had other odd things happen with this FC5 installation and thought it
>>> was merely related to those peculiarities? In fact I did the
>>> installation twice since it did not offer me a chance to select the
>>> applications I wanted? I had installed FC5 from the same DVD on another
>>> computer via my LAN connection while this one ran FC4 and that went as
>>> expected, a normal install without problems.
>>>
>>>
>> So did you do a clean install here? or was it an upgrade?
>>
>> There are some inconsistencies that are seen when doing an upgrade
>> because not everything gets put in place new. Old configuration files,
>> some of the binaries that do not get removed, etc.
>>
>> On my FC5 system done as a clean install the creation of the directories
>> and mounting of the cdrom gets done as expected.
>>
>>
>>
>>> Bob Goodwin Zuni, Virginia w2bod
>>>
>>>
> Well something is clearly wrong with my machine. I did a clean install.
> I have two CD-s. One cd recorder and one just cd reader. Also a floppy.
> But only a /media/cdrom was created and no automounting of data CD-s
> happens. So what is wrong do you all think?
>
I don't know if anything is wrong, I don't think I want the computer
to auto-mount CD's? Auto-mount seems like a feature for a consumer
device like a CD/DVD player, I usually have data, text, etc. on mine. Maybe
I'm missing something?
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