CD/DVD/USB and mounting...
Jonathan D. Arnold / Daemon Dancing
jdarnold-Xst6pqGrDNhg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org
Fri Aug 24 16:31:08 EDT 2007
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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