fstab missing line

[Ian Malone]

On 5/1/06, jdow <jdow at earthlink.net> wrote:
> From: "Ian Malone" <ibmalone at gmail.com>
>
> > On 5/1/06, Bob Goodwin <bobgoodwin at wildblue.net> wrote:

> >> 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 ...
> >>
> >
> > Using Gnome on FC5 the normal behaviour is that when you insert a
> > data cd it is mounted under /media/<volumename>.  Personally I
> > find this a little inconvenient, but it's not impossible to work with.
> > Does this not happen for you?
>
> Some of us are adverse to checking unknown CDROMs from a GUI. Given
> the choice I prefer to look at it from a bog standard command-line
> bash session such as via alt-f1. Does the automount work there? And
> where does it mount the drive?
>

I've no idea what actually goes on, I seem to remember someone saying
HAL wouldn't be used for this in FC%, but J. K. Cliburn's mail on this
thread suggests otherwise.

The mount point is /media/{volume.name}

As to security risks from unknown CDROMs in a GUI, unless the Gnome
people go crazy and start implementing something like Window's autorun
I doubt there's significant risk. (Buffer overrun attacks in previewed file
types like pngs maybe?)

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imalone