What's wrong with FC3 ??
HI all
I upgraded from FC2 to FC3 and I have some really bad effects on the system. One of them is that the CDs are now mountet in /media instead of /mnt, but no matter if I edit /etc/fstab file, next reboot the lines I added weren't there (??), so I decided to give up (i don't mind that much having to mount in /media instead of /mnt). What really gets me angry is that i have 2 symlinks pointing to the same device. /dev/cdrom ---> /dev/hdc /dev/cdwriter ---> /dev/hdc The burner is /dev/hdc, and I erased cdrom symlink and created a new one EVERY time booted to FC3, and whenever i check why CD is not working, I see the system changed back /dev/cdrom ---> /dev/hdd to the prevoius one. I tried to disable kudzu at startup, but still no avail. Why on earth I cannot configure FC3 as I want?? I'm really disappointed with FC3 team... |
Hi.
The problems you're experiencing are due to Fedora using udev instaed of the old devfs. It's not really Fedora's fault (the old devfs has been deprecated in the kernel). Have a look at this: http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/udev/ Dave |
Thanks for the quick answer. I upgraded udev as suggested, and I still cannot change the mountpoint to hdc and hdd. As for the symlinks, they just dissapeared. So I really don't know what to think...
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The reason the symlinks dissappear is because all the entries are created at boot or when hardware is added, so /dev gets unmounted when you shut down and you lose all your device nodes.
If you really want your /dev/cdrom then create a block device with the right major and minor numbers and put it in /etc/udev/devices - it'll be placed in /dev when you boot, and hopefully it won't get overwritten. Dave |
Thanks for the tips. I really don't mind if I don't have /dev/cdrom and /dev/cdwriter, but I would like to have the dvd and burner mounted in /mnt...
But i think if I cannot do it, I'll get used to mount them in /media. What I don't understand is why I can't edit fstab and change that. I don't like being forced to mount media in one specific place rather than chosing the one I want to mount them. |
You should still be able to add lines to fstab. Only lines with 'managed' in them are handled by udev/hotplug. I've not tried it myself though...
Dave |
I'll try to remove the "managed" option in fstab and see results. I'll post them.
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