Mount points for CD-ROM

[Scott Karlin]

Michael Cronenworth wrote:
> -------- 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.
>>

Thanks for the reply.

> There are no packages that create mount point directories.

Good to know.  I wanted to make sure that the mount points I might
create manually won't conflict.

> 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.

Interesting.  I'm a WindowMaker (and sometimes KDE) user so I've always
handled mounts myself.

If I were to switch to gnome, how is the "local" user determined?  My
xorg.conf is set up to have three separate X Screens.  My family can
all be logged in simultaneously and we switch users with Ctrl-Alt-Fn.
It sounds like the system might have some difficulty determining who
to give permissions to.

Scott