making cdroms read and write

[Scott Berry]

Alright let's see here if I can explain this a little better.  What I need 
to know is what then is fstab supposed to say?  I have done some 
modifications so that the cdrom comes up in "/mnt/cdrom" because I am used 
to a Debian system.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "jdow" <jdow at earthlink.net>
To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2006 5:09 PM
Subject: Re: making cdroms read and write


> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Charles Curley" <charlescurley at charlescurley.com>
> On Sat, Sep 16, 2006 at 10:30:28AM -0500, Scott Berry wrote:
>>
>>    I have a question concerning the fstab and mtab.  How do I make
>>    sure that the cdroms are read write both and is there a way to do
>>    this in Gnome?
>
> As root, use any text editor to make changes to /etc/fstab. Never edit
> /etc/mtab; that is reserved for the mount system.
>
> As for making CR-ROMs writable, don't bother. For the purposes of
> mounting and /etc/fstab, they are read only. Mount will determine that
> a CD is read only and mount it RO.
>
> Software that writes to one writes to the raw device, bypassing the
> whole file system entirely. At that point, the device had better not
> be mounted.
>
> <<jdow>> Charles, on the Amiga we had a way to appear to write to a
> read-only style CDROM. It diverted the writes to a ram based or disk
> based cache that was searched first before the CDROM was accessed for
> read. Maybe this is the kind of tool the person is looking for.
>
> On another hand there are some utilities that will mount a CDRW as
> a read/slow-write filesystem on Windows machines. I've never tried
> to use one. The concept seems silly to ME. This might be what he is
> looking at.
>
> On the gripping hand - maybe the concept of read-only physical
> media has not penetrated somewhere it should.
>
> One of the three hands may fit the situation here. Maybe if the
> gentle-person explained what he intended a little better he might
> get more astute answers.
>
> {^_^}
>
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