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CD/DVD/USB and mounting...



Scott Ehrlich wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, Danny wrote:
> 
>> Which distro and window manager are you using?  I recently switched to
>> Gentoo and noticed they've made a push for mounting via ivman/pmount
>> for userspace mounting.  This is in constrast to Gnome's own internal
>> device management layer 'gnome-volume-manager'.  I don't know if KDE
>> does anything special for mounting.
> 
> I happen to be playing in the CentOS/RedHat 5 worlds.   I'm taking the
> position that there is no window manager (i.e. init 3 aka tty mode).
> 
> Thus, the need to learn the command-line answer to mounting resources.

I would just add an entry to the /etc/fstab table then say "mount /dev/cdrom".
Something like this line in the file:

/dev/cdrom      /mount/cdrom    udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro   0 0

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