Hey guys, I want to be able to mount my cdrom drive from the fluxbox menu. As is, I open a terminal, su [password], mount /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom. Now, what would be the way to do this from the fluxbox menu? I've tried aterm -e su & mount... but nothing seems to work. What would be the way to do this? All I want is to punch in the root password or something and then have it mount, and then have a similar command for eject or umount. Any ideas? -Bill

Do you really want the root user to be the only person who can mount/unmount your cdrom drive?

If 'yes', then you could investigate using gksudo or kdesu (depending which is installed on your system).

If 'no', then after editing /etc/fstab, you'd only need to have {mount /mnt/cdrom} and it should do the trick.

Daniel

You can add yourself to the disk group so you can mount and unmount CDs and hard disks as well. Then you can just use the mount command.

How do I add myself to the disk group, and what modifications should I make to /etc/fstab? -Bill

Well I think most distros add your CD automatically to your /etc/fstab so no need to change anything in there. You can just use the same command as you used before.

To add yourself to the disk group you open /etc/group go to the line disk and add your username behind it. You have to do this as root.

Ok, well I did that - (add myself to disk) but it still says only root can do mount. Well, I edited the sudo file so everyone in wheel can run everything. Now I have a fluxbox question. I made a submenu called mount, with dev/hdc and hdd for my drives. Both have mount and eject options, which work. Now, what I want to know is if theres a way to list the mounts (i.e., the mount command). I did aterm -e mount, but the aterm just closes off. Is there a way to either keep the aterm open after running the mount command, or is there a way to parse the output from mount into the form for the fluxbox menu - [exec] ( ) { } ?

-Bill

You can try to list your mounts with :

Ok, but will that keep the aterm open, or pop up a message box?

See, I'm running this command from the fluxbox menu. I really need something to come up and STAY up with the list of mounts. -Bill

Maybe you are looking for a light program like Xdiskusage(http://xdiskusage.sourceforge.net/)

/etc/fstab
Here's what I did to mine. If you want your drives mounted when you boot, change to 'noauto' to 'auto'. To access the disks without having to su, I added 'users' so anybody in the 'users' group can mount them. The 'rw' is so I can burn to them. If it's a normal cdrom drive change that to 'ro'. I don't know if you can add 'mount' to a menu. Another thing is to check your permissions in /mnt directory. I used 'chgrp cdrom cdrom/' and added myself to the cdrom group in /etc/group. You could also do 'chgrp users cdrom/'. So mine looks like this:
Hope that helps out some