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I went to mount my cd rom.....mount /mnt/cdrom but get the message can''t find /mnt/cdrom in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab
This a new installation. When I use mc there is no cdrom listed under mnt
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Check your fstab
cdrom line should point to /mnt/cdrom
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/dvd and make sure that the folder /mnt/cdrom exists - otherwise create it
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I have /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cd iso9660 ro,user,noauto, unhide
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/dvd udf ro, user, noauto, unhide
I didn't have the directory /mnt/cdrom but hence created it.
Cordially,
S. Barret Dolph
Taipei Taiwan
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Do you have both a dvd drive and a cdrom drive?
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why not just put the following in fstab:
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/dvd auto ro,user,noauto,unhide Make sure the directory /mnt/dvd exists.
Then you can mount CDs or DVDs to the same directory by simply typing:
$mount /mnt/dvd The auto in the fstab line will auto-detect the filesystem type to mount by probing the device /dev/cdroms/cdrom0
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But I only have a cdrom I don't have a dvd drive.
I tried rewriting /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cd iso9660 ro,user, nonauto, hide
to /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cd auto ro,user, nonauto, hide
in /etc/mtab there is nothing about the cdrom
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try this line in fstab :
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 ro,users,noauto,unhide 0 0Offline
In fstab it had /mnt/cd not /mnt/cdrom changing this solved the problem. Still should this be listed as a bug? I used the 6.0 iso for installation.
Cordially,
S. Barret Dolph
PS. Any other excuses I can make for work now that everything is ok?
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i don't think it is worth filing a bug for as it is a simple preference.
as for the /mnt/dvd line just comment it out but it is not hurting anything by being there.
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Why a preference? I had to set up a directory in mnt for my cdrom and the fstab wouldn't work as written. Can a CD be mounted if fstab is written as /mnt/cd? In other words, I could have mounted the CD with mount /mnt/cd?
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Why a preference? I had to set up a directory in mnt for my cdrom and the fstab wouldn't work as written. Can a CD be mounted if fstab is written as /mnt/cd? In other words, I could have mounted the CD with mount /mnt/cd?
preference because the symlink in mnt can be called anything. as long as your fstab and /mnt references match you could use anything you like. for example i have two optical drives and one is labelled cd the other cdr. for the latter i just changed the dvd line in the fstab to what i needed. i could have put "ham" and "cheese" if i wanted though.
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Well I never paid much attention to this before but I am happy to learn a few more things.
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np. i found this out only after coming over to arch myself. at that time /mnt was populated by default with, at least, cd and fl with corresponding fstab entries. it confused me at first until i found you could put anything.
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