From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 20 03:17:45 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3D9716A4CE for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2005 03:17:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: from tisch.mail.mindspring.net (tisch.mail.mindspring.net [207.69.200.157]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E9AF43D48 for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2005 03:17:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from keebler@mindspring.com) Received: from user-11fakm9.dsl.mindspring.com ([66.245.82.201] helo=[192.168.1.100]) by tisch.mail.mindspring.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1CrSpI-0007E0-00 for freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org; Wed, 19 Jan 2005 22:17:41 -0500 Message-ID: <41EF2230.7080902@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 22:14:56 -0500 From: Carleton Vaughn User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org References: <41EC5DA7.6000202@fusemail.com> In-Reply-To: <41EC5DA7.6000202@fusemail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: How to setup fstab for DVD, floppy and CD drives? X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 03:17:46 -0000 Brian John wrote: > Hello, > I have a DVD writer, a CD writer and a floppy drive in my PC. Since I > don't know what file system that a media will use until I put it in the > drive, how do I set it up in fstab? This is what it looks like right > now for these devices: > /dev/acd0 /cdrom auto rw,noauto 0 0 > /dev/acd1 /cdrom1 auto rw,noauto 0 0 > /dev/fd0 /floppy auto rw,noauto 0 0 > > The problem is, when I click on a device, it says: "mount: exec > mount_auto not found in /sbin:/usr/sbin: No such file or directory > Please check that the disk is entered correctly." > > How can I get this to work? "auto" is in the FStype field, and your mounter is trying to find the mount program for a file system of type "auto". There's no such thing. Change "auto" to "cd9660" for the cd & dvd and all will be happy. Might I suggest changing one of acd[01]'s mount point to /dvd? This might clear up any later confusion. Someone else probably better understands what "auto" in fstab is supposed to do. Have fun. P.S. Can someone comment on why the "rw" option is better here than "ro"? -- Carleton Vaughn College Park, Georgia, USA