Mount points for CD-ROM

[Michael Cronenworth]

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Mount points for CD-ROM
From: Scott Karlin <scott at CS.Princeton.EDU>
To: fedora-list at redhat.com
Date: 02/05/2009 03:08 PM

> I was surprised that I had to create mount points and use an explicit
> mount to read a CD-ROM:
> 
> # mkdir /media/cdrom
> # mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom
> 
> Is this typical?  Is there some RPM that creates the mount points?
> 
> I don't mind becoming root to do the mount -- I was just surprised
> the mount points weren't already there.
> 

There are no packages that create mount point directories.

Mounting a CD on the Gnome desktop is done through HAL. The CD is 
mounted automagically with permissions set to the local user. You do not 
have to create any directories or issue any command line arguments for 
this to happen.