[PLUG] HAL vs /etc/fstab
Larry W
larryw at holbrookmasons.org
Wed Feb 18 18:46:09 UTC 2009
Rich Shepard wrote:
> I'm trying to understand what's going on here. With /dev/cdrom
> included in /etc/fstab trying to mount the drive fails because it
> cannot find any media in the tray. It's there, of course. If I
> comment out the /dev/cdrom line and let HAL mount it, I'm told that
> the drive doesn't exist in fstab or mtab so it cannot be mounted.
>
> But, if I su to root and issue 'mount /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom' it works.
>
> What the HAL is going on? It won't automount with HAL, and it will no
> longer allow me as a peon user to mount the drive.
>
> The cdrw drive behaves, by the way.
Rich, use the noauto option in your fstab entry. Here's what I have:
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
Regards,
Larry
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