Problem mounting CD-R in Redhat 8
Hi,
I'm having problem mounting CD-RW in my linux machine. I can mount it manually, but I'm having problem during booting. I'm using RH 8. This is what I did: ln -s /dev/hdd /dev/cdrom1 mkdir /mnt/cdrom1 Then, I modified /etc/fstab by adding this line: /dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 iso9660 noauto,owner,kuzdu,ro 0 0 Then I usually umount -a and then mount -a. In the first couple of reboot, usually the cdrom1 mounted nicely, but after that , when I boot the system, I got error while updating /etc/fstab cannot stat /dev /cdrom1 not found. When I check, /dev/cdrom1 and /mnt/cdrom1 have been deleted, and /etc/fstab has been modified. Usually, another line of /dev/cdrom1 ..... is added in fstab. Any clue what happened? Is there a script somewhere that causes this to happen? Thanks |
Have you used any graphical configuration programs. I don't use RH, but in SuSE you run the chance of loosing any changes manually made once you run it's configuration utilities.
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thereis an automounter program in RH (console or GUI) that handles mounting of cds/floppys for you and that deamon deleted your dirs probably. I don't think it's necessary to have fstab entry in you are using GUI, because when cd in inserted you'll get icon on your desktop with mounted cd
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I dissagree with you Noerr, because a distrobution only know what to check for automounting through the /etc/fstab. Things like hotplug will automaticly add new devices to the fstab at boot, but automount requires fstab to know what to mount.
Can anybody confirm or deny this? -Steve |
No, I haven't use any graphical configuration program. I do not know whether RH8 run the configurator during boot or not. If it does, how do I get around the problem?
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console automounter should't be messing your fstab so it must be some other app.
besides it is very very weird that link /dev/cdrom1 would get deleted on its own |
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