From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 4 19:36:51 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 B806716A40D for ; Thu, 4 May 2006 19:36:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tech.junk@verizon.net) Received: from vms042pub.verizon.net (vms042pub.verizon.net [206.46.252.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 726C943D45 for ; Thu, 4 May 2006 19:36:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tech.junk@verizon.net) Received: from [192.168.0.11] ([72.71.198.56]) by vms042.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-4.02 (built Sep 9 2005)) with ESMTPA id <0IYR004Z3AHETLH1@vms042.mailsrvcs.net> for FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org; Thu, 04 May 2006 14:36:51 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 15:36:50 -0400 From: Sean In-reply-to: <20060504192243.GA99120@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> To: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org Message-id: <445A57D2.7070503@verizon.net> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit References: <445A3FDD.9080904@verizon.net> <20060504192243.GA99120@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060403) 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: tech.junk@verizon.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 19:36:51 -0000 David Kelly wrote: > 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. > Thanks, that is what I had done, but was wondering if I had to do anything different for a DVD. I recall that a region code also has to be set? Sean