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Is there any potential problem with changing the fstab line that reads the cdrom to /dev/hdc rather than the traditional /dev/cdrom ?
I was having trouble creating a symbolic link to /dev/hdc from /dev/cdrom. Upon reboot the fstab would always say there was an unexpected file type for the cdrom.
Changing the /dev/cdrom to /dev/hdc fixed it, and I can now
$ mount /etc/cdrom
My fstab line looks like this:
/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom/ iso9660 noauto,user,kudzu,ro, exec,unhide 0,0
and if i run ls -l /dev/cdrom, I get
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8Dec 21 06:16 hdc -> /dev/hdc
Originally posted by tunedLow Is there any potential problem with changing the fstab line that reads the cdrom to /dev/hdc rather than the traditional /dev/cdrom ?
I was having trouble creating a symbolic link to /dev/hdc from /dev/cdrom. Upon reboot the fstab would always say there was an unexpected file type for the cdrom.
Changing the /dev/cdrom to /dev/hdc fixed it, and I can now
$ mount /etc/cdrom
My fstab line looks like this:
/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom/ iso9660 noauto,user,kudzu,ro, exec,unhide 0,0
and if i run ls -l /dev/cdrom, I get
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8Dec 21 06:16 hdc -> /dev/hdc
Thanks.
ok, i have some questions for you ? i hope these are typo's but i have to ask.
whay are you trying to mount the cdrom in /etc/cdrom when the fstab say /mnt/cdrom?
remove the / after mnt/cdrom in the fstab.
Why do you have kudzu and unhide as options?
also remove the , between the 0 0.
i think you should take a look at man fstab to know what options to put where in the fstab file.
yeah, that's totally normal, it's only a soft link to another file, and has absolutely no effect at all on how it works, hdc is the actusal device, so whatever is linked to that device will behave exactly the same. its only done generally make it easier to understand
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