CD/DVD/USB and mounting...

[Scott Ehrlich]

On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, Jonathan D. Arnold / Daemon Dancing wrote:

> 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

I opted to cheat (had a tty-only session to another system) and tail 
/var/log/messages, found the /dev/ for the usb stick (in this case) and 
mounted it under /mnt/usb (I created usb under /mnt)

I'd still be interested in feedback of other ways/tools.

Thanks.

Scott

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