Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 16:20:02 -0800 From: "Darren Pilgrim" <dmp@bitfreak.org> To: "'Carleton Vaughn'" <keebler@mindspring.com>, <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: How to setup fstab for DVD, floppy and CD drives? Message-ID: <001601c50018$211693b0$142a15ac@spud> In-Reply-To: <41EF2230.7080902@mindspring.com>
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> From: Carleton Vaughn >=20 > Brian John wrote: > > /dev/acd0 /cdrom auto rw,noauto 0 = 0 <...> > > "mount: exec mount_auto not found in /sbin:/usr/sbin: No such file = or > > directory. Please check that the disk is entered correctly." > >=20 > > How can I get this to work? > > "auto" is in the FStype field, and your mounter is trying to find the=20 > mount program for a file system of type "auto". There's no such = thing. <...> > Someone else probably better understands what "auto" in fstab is=20 > supposed to do. The "auto/noauto" option is used to tell `mount -a` if the filesystem = should be mounted automatically. The typical line for a CD/DVD device that = isn't needed at boot is something like: /dev/device /mountpoint cd9660 ro,noauto > P.S. Can someone comment on why the "rw" option is better=20 > here than "ro"? It's not, you should use "ro" for CD/DVD drives. The mounted = filesystems on these drives can't be written to even if the media itself is writeable. = In FreeBSD, CD/DVD writing is done by writing directly to the device.
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