Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Mark Creamer <mcreamer@××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] fstab
Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2005 02:54:27
Message-Id: 42EEDFAA.1070001@adelphia.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] fstab by Alexis Kostibas
1 Alexis Kostibas wrote:
2
3 >The corresponding lines in my fstab looks like:
4 >
5 >/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,ro,user 0 0
6 >/dev/cdroms/cdrom1 /mnt/dvdrw auto noauto,rw,user 0 0
7 >
8 >To figure out which is cdrom0 and which is cdrom1, you can either guess
9 >& check, or do:
10 >
11 >ls -l /dev/cdroms
12 >
13 >and see what they're pointed to. Usually, it'll be HDA, HDB, HDC, or
14 >HDD, depending on whether it's on the Primary Master, Pri Slave, Sec
15 >Master, or Sec Slave, respectively.
16 >
17 >The "user" part in the 4th column allows the device to be mounted by a
18 >normal user, not just 'root'.
19 >
20 >Hope that helps!
21 >
22 >Alexis Kostibas
23 >
24 >On Mon, 2005-08-01 at 21:20 -0500, Mark Creamer wrote:
25 >
26 >
27 >>I have two CD drives. The first is an ordinary cd-rom (read-only). The
28 >>second is a dvd-rw. If someone has something similar, can you tell me
29 >>what the lines to mount those two drives should look like in fstab?
30 >>
31 >>Thanks!
32 >>
33 >>
34 >
35 >
36 >
37 Very helpful. I was on the right track - I figured out that I didn't
38 have udf enabled in the kernel. That combined with what you gave me
39 took care of it. Thanks!
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