Re: mounting a dvdrw

[Paul van der Vlis <paul@vandervlis.nl>]

Fred J. schreef:
> Hi
> I am missing dvdrw in my / dir, however I got cdrom which is link to
> /media/cdrom
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 2006-03-19 03:46 cdrom -> media/cdrom
> but my fstab does not have media/cdrom but rather /media/cdrom0 and 1.
> here is my #fstab
> ****************************************************************
> !# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
> #
> #
> proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
> /dev/hdb1 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
> /dev/hdb9 /home ext3 defaults 0 2
> /dev/hdb8 /tmp ext3 defaults 0 2
> /dev/hdb5 /usr ext3 defaults 0 2
> /dev/hdb6 /var ext3 defaults 0 2
> /dev/hdb7 none swap sw 0 0
> /dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
> /dev/hdd /media/cdrom1 iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
> /dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
> when I need to mount/umount the dvdrw I have to do
> #mount /dve/hdd or #mount /media/cdrom1
> I would like to do
> #mount /dvdrw
> do I make a symlink in my root dir like this then
> #ln -s /dev/hdd /dvdrw
> ?

You can do, but you need to change /etc/fstab too.

Realise that the default is to use /media/cdrom1 , zo maybe it's better
to use that, or make a symlink from /dvdrw to /media/cdrom1.

When you use a 2.6 kernel, CDroms's are mounted automatically (when you
did not turn that off).

With regards,
Paul van der Vlis.