From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 4 19:23:04 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15E8C16A4E0 for ; Thu, 4 May 2006 19:23:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dkelly@Grumpy.DynDNS.org) Received: from smtp.knology.net (smtp.knology.net [24.214.63.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36D4843D7D for ; Thu, 4 May 2006 19:22:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dkelly@Grumpy.DynDNS.org) Received: (qmail 15814 invoked by uid 0); 4 May 2006 19:21:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO Grumpy.DynDNS.org) (216.186.148.249) by smtp2.knology.net with SMTP; 4 May 2006 19:21:44 -0000 Received: by Grumpy.DynDNS.org (Postfix, from userid 928) id 9052C28436; Thu, 4 May 2006 14:22:43 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 14:22:43 -0500 From: David Kelly To: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: <20060504192243.GA99120@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> References: <445A3FDD.9080904@verizon.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <445A3FDD.9080904@verizon.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: Subject: Re: add DVD Burner and file system setup? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 19:23:04 -0000 On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 01:54:37PM -0400, Sean wrote: > I just added a DVD burner to my system and am trying to figure out how > to setup the fstab. > > The device is showing up on acd1 but what file system type should be > specified? This is typical of what sysinstall writes if a CD/DVD is found during installation: /dev/acd0 /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 The line isn't necessary, but it makes mounting optical media as simple as "sudo mount /cdrom" and "sudo umount /cdrom" assuming your filesystem is ISO-9660. FreeBSD CD/DVD support isn't as "user friendly" as Irix or MacOS. Maybe someone would like to create an Irix-like mediad to monitor the attaching and removing of media, and to act appropriately on those events? Haven't looked lately but possibly KDE and/or Gnome does this? The Irix mediad daemon I so fondly remember launched appropriate non-kernel userspace helpers as filesystem drivers. At least in the past it was too easy to create a corrupt 9660 disc which panics the 9660 kernel driver. A crashed user process isn't as critical. And its not as if any significant performance increase can be had with the code in the kernel. And then while I'm wishful thinking, a mediad should control whether the new disk (media) is to be privately mounted (say, in someone's ${HOME}/mount/), or publicly for everyone, added to webserver space, NFS, and/or SMB exports. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@HiWAAY.net ======================================================================== Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.