Manually mounting of CDs/DVDs

[Paul Smith]

On 11/25/06, fredex <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> wrote:
> > >> I have added the line
> > >>
> > >> /dev/hdf /mnt/dvd auto
> > >> umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec,users 0 0
> > >>
> > >> to /etc/fstab, in order to make it possible for a user manually
> > >> mounting CDs/DVDs. However, I am not being successful:
> > >>
> > >> $ mount /dev/dvd
> > >> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdf,
> > >>        missing codepage or other error
> > >>        In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
> > >>        dmesg | tail  or so
> > >>
> > >> $
> > >>
> > >> Any ideas?
> > >
> > >Try replacing the "auto" with "udf,iso9660" and see how that goes.
> > >That's what I use, and DVD/CD's mount without a problem. And I don't
> > >think that "iocharset" and "codepage" is really needed..
> >
> > Thanks, Wolf. Now, with
> >
> > /dev/hdf /mnt/dvd udf,iso9660
> > umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec,users 0 0
>
> From the mount man page:
>
>         If any user should be able to unmount, then use users instead
>         of user in the fstab line.
>
> but I see you're using both. You might try losing one or the other of them.
>
> >
> > in /etc/fstab, I again get
> >
> > $ mount /dev/dvd
> > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdf,
> >       missing codepage or other error
> >       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
> >       dmesg | tail  or so
> >
> > $ mount -t iso9660 /dev/dvd
> > mount: only root can do that
> > $ mount -t udf /dev/dvd
> > mount: only root can do that
> > $
> >
> > Any further ideas?

Thanks, but with the line

/dev/hdf /mnt/dvd udf,iso9660 defaults,noauto,user,ro 0 0

in /etc/fstab, everything seems to work fine.

Paul