Re: [Sheflug] Re: CDROM mount troubles

[Matthew Palmer <nospam [at] ieee.uow.edu.au>]

On Fri, 18 May 2001, Richard Ibbotson wrote:

> On Friday 18 May 2001 04:38, you wrote:
> > Hello South Yorkshire brethren!

Well, in spirit I guess.  <g>

> > My ftsab currently looks like;
> >
> > /dev/hda1 / ext2 defaults 1 1
> > none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
> > /dev/hda6 /home ext2 defaults 1 2
> > /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660 defaults 0 0

Change this to

/dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660 defaults 0 0

or

/mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/hdb defaults 0 0

> > /dev/hda1 / ext2 rw 0 0
> > none /proc proc rw 0 0
> > none /dev/pts devpts rw,mode=0620 0 0
> > /dev/hda6 /home ext2 rw 0 0
> > /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount rw,fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0
> > automount(pid448) /misc autofs
> > rw,fd=5,pgrp=448,minproto=2,maxproto=3 0 0
> >
> > the last line worries me most, but I'm ignoring it for now.

Nah, it's to do with the automounter.  Mothing scary.

> > when I type mount /dev/cdrom it returns...
> > ...mount: can't find /dev/hdb in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab
> >
> > I kind of understand this, and know that my cdrom is on hdb.
> >
> > What should the line inthe fstab and mtab files look like?

You never ever ever touch /etc/mtab.  It's for program reference purposes
only.  In fact, it's usually a good idea to

ln -sf /proc/mounts /etc/mtab

but it's not necessary.


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