"/media/cd" gets deleted when cd ejected although it's in /etc/fstab

leniviy · 2010-01-03 14:23:08

For better wine compatibility I uncommented this line in /etc/fstab:

/dev/cdrom             /media/cd   auto    ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0

Then manually created the directory /media/cd
Now cdroms automount there instead of "/media/${label}"

But when I eject the cdrom, /media/cd is removed. If I insert the cdrom again, it's not mounted complaining that "/media/cd" doesn't exist.

Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 1: helper failed with:
mount: mount point /media/cd does not exist

Last edited by leniviy (2010-01-03 14:25:08)

chsims1 · 2010-01-03 17:29:03

Is this a hal conflict? Automounting with hal doesn't need the fstab entries.

leniviy · 2010-01-03 18:27:07

chsims1 wrote:

Is this a hal conflict? Automounting with hal doesn't need the fstab entries.

Without fstab entry hal mounts removable medias to /media/${label} which is not what I want.
If I remember correctly, in previous versions the devices which were listed in fstab were just ignored and you had to mount them manually.

I was so glad they changed it so hal uses fstab entries as hints telling where to mount. But it doesn't work for 100%.

jac · 2010-01-03 19:49:31

I don't know if this has anything to do with it, but I read that manually created folders should go in /mnt instead of /media as that is reserved for automounting things. Might be another program deleting it because it has been unmounted.

leniviy · 2010-01-03 20:27:04

jac wrote:

I don't know if this has anything to do with it, but I read that manually created folders should go in /mnt instead of /media as that is reserved for automounting things. Might be another program deleting it because it has been unmounted.

Traditionally you don't mount to /mnt/cdrom, you mount to /mnt itself.

jac · 2010-01-03 22:36:13

Haha, then I'm doing that untraditionally, I thought it worked like that so you could have multiple mounts... Does that help anything?

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#1 2010-01-03 14:23:08

"/media/cd" gets deleted when cd ejected although it's in /etc/fstab

#2 2010-01-03 17:29:03

Re: "/media/cd" gets deleted when cd ejected although it's in /etc/fstab

#3 2010-01-03 18:27:07

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#4 2010-01-03 19:49:31

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#5 2010-01-03 20:27:04

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