Need an fstab entry, can't see DVD or floppy

Mikkel L. Ellertson mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Sun Sep 3 03:48:50 UTC 2006


david cooke wrote:
> This is old Red Hat for most but I am a Fedora Plebe seeking
> answers for way to mount the floppy and DVD ROM drives.
> 
> Entry from 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
> 
> Is all I have. From looking at the processes in /var/log/messages
> I think the floppy might be fd0 and the DVD is hda. Shall I create
> folders after the entries I need to make abobe and if so, what shall I put therein, if
> anything.
> Thanks
> 
If you are running FC5, then you should not need an entry for the
floppy and DVD. They should be taken care of by HAL, and should show
up in /media when you insert a disk. They will be owned by the
person logged in at the console.

Mikkel
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