Douglas Frank wrote: > /dev/hdc is my cdrom. But, the player looks for /dev/cdrom. > > So of course I set up a link, /dev/cdrom pointing to /dev/hdc. Works > fine... UNTIL I reboot, and discover the link's gone. > > What's rm'ing the link to hdc? On the assumption that it happens during > boot (as opposed to when shutting down), I disabled kudzu but that made > no difference, /dev/cdrom still disappears. On FC3 /dev is a tmpfs filesystem which isn't permanently stored to disk. It's recreated each time Fedora boots. Do you have the latest udev RPM installed? Do you have any other symlinks in /dev pointing at /dev/hdc? What are the contents of /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/info ? James. -- James Wilkinson | "I never really understood how there could be things Exeter Devon UK | that would drive you insane just because you knew E-mail address: james | them until I ran into Windows." @westexe.demon.co.uk | -- Peter da Silva
