Mounting optical drives in FC5

katoom187 · 05-12-2006, 07:51 PM

I recently upgraded from FC4 to FC5. No major nuisances except for one. When I mount a cd or dvd, it mounts as /media/[disc label] instead of /media/cdrecorder or /media/cdrom, etc. This becomes a pain for applications running under wine that expect to see cd's mounted in the same place every time. Normally, I just search google for stuff like this, but no luck so far. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

Brian1 · 05-12-2006, 08:29 PM

That is curious. Not sure what is doing that. Post the line from /etc/fstab for the cd/dvd drive. I am curious to see if they are using a new option.

Anyways to make it always /media/cdrom or what ever you need to edit /etc/fstab and define the mount point you want. Then remove the option ' managed ' from the option section of the device. Save and exit. It is ready to go without reboot. Make sure you have a directory /media/cdrom. I don't think it will disappear on reboot but if it does then use /mnt/cdrom as the mount point and create the directory /mnt/cdrom.

Brian1

katoom187 · 05-14-2006, 11:33 AM

Here's my fstab. There's no entry for the optical drives, but I don't think it was there in FC4 either. I'm thinking that this is possibly something to do with automount, but I'm having a little trouble finding a config file for it to tweak.

Code:

/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
LABEL=/boot             /boot                   ext3    defaults        1 2
/dev/devpts             /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
/dev/shm                /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
/dev/proc               /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
/dev/sys                /sys                    sysfs   defaults        0 0
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap                    swap    defaults        0 0

/dev/hdb1               /media/dos              vfat    rw,defaults,umask=0000 0 0

Brian1 · 05-14-2006, 04:11 PM

Add a line like this to /etc/fstab. Edit the /dev value to the cdrom if /dev/cdrom does not exist.

Code:

/dev/cdrom              /mnt/cdrom              auto    noauto,owner,rw 0 0

katoom187 · 05-15-2006, 02:13 PM

No luck. I have /dev/cdrom cdwriter, and a whole bunch of others that look like they might work but none to. Without any entry in fstab, they still mount in an automatically created folder named after the cd's disc label. When I try to make an fstab entry like we used to in the old days, it's a no go. I'm thinking that this is some new "feature" of FC5

Brian1 · 05-15-2006, 03:37 PM

Ok it might be kudzu which is a hardware detection tool in the Redhat distro clones.
You can turn off the kudzu tool as root with the command.
chkconfig --level 345 kudzu off

Not sure if it is still used but can try. Now reboot and modify etc/fstab and use the /dev/hdc or /dev/hdd or what ever it is using. Should be found in your ' dmesg ' log.

Now see what happens.

Brian1