How do I allow a user to access the floppy and Cdrom drives without having to input a Root password?? Its really a hassle to keep switching back and forth between the user and root. Thanks

use visudo to give permission to the users.

You can just edit /etc/fstab and add the "users" option.

umm ADZ...
I have a similar problem.
I have to re-update fstab everytime i reboot, also have to add directories to /mnt. is there a way I can "automount" at boot?

What exactly do you mean by that? Are you saying it gets overwritten at boot time?
Yes. Just add "auto" into the options field for those partitions/shares you want to have mounted on boot.

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What exactly do you mean by that? Are you saying it gets overwritten at boot time?

YES, it did it in RH7.2 and MDK9.2 & MDK7 as well!!!

Also, just what do you mean by:

>Yes. Just add "auto" into the options field for those partitions/shares you want to have mounted on boot.

do you mean in fstab?

Yes put it in fstab in the options field. The fields are (from left to right):
<File System> <Mount Point> <Type> <Options> <Dump> <Pass>
Could you post your fstab as you would like it? Then reboot and post your fstab as it is when it is supposedly overwritten. We'll what differences there are.

Under my fstab I removed the no in front of auto and then saved it as root but that dosnt seem to have changed anything. What else can i try? Thanks

Sorry, two threads here can get confusing...

BajaNick: You were meant to specify the "users" option not the "auto" option. That option allows non root users to mount and unmount (dismount?) that device. CD drives and floppies are meant to have the "noauto" option enabled as you don't want them mounted at boot time - you want then mounted whenever you say so.

Dondon: You are meant to specify the "auto" option. This will mount your device/parition/share automatically at boot time.

Cool, That worked. Thanks

this is at boot:
LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hdb6 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0

& this is what i add:
/dev/hda1 /mnt/drvc auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
/dev/hda2 /mnt/extra auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0


I see the "no auto", I'll chage it to auto.
But what about the "drvc" & "extra" in my /mnt ?
It disappears too at boot?

Are there actually any /mnt/drvc and /mnt/extra directories? If it's getting overrwrittenen then all I can think of is that the mount point doesn't exist. It's highly irregular for that to happen, though. If this keeps happening, then post that problem in the fedora forum.

yes, I create those two directories in /mnt (or else it doesn't work)
the it works fine, but whe i reboot.... they're gone. not only in fedora, in all the ones I listed before.

So the directories themselves stay there but the fstab entries get sent to oblivion? Well there's the obvious one, make doubly sure you've saved the file (and you're root). Then BEFORE you reboot, test it out. Type mount <mount point> to make sure the system is actually reading the fstab entry and the mount options are correct.