On Sat, 2006-09-16 at 17:19 -0500, Scott Berry wrote:
Please do not top post. It is difficult at best (nearly impossible) to
relate what you say here to what it applies to somewhere below.
> Alright let's see here if I can explain this a little better. What I need
> to know is what then is fstab supposed to say? I have done some
> modifications so that the cdrom comes up in "/mnt/cdrom" because I am used
> to a Debian system.
My fstab has this (modified by me to provide a permanent mount point):
/dev/hdc1 /media/cdrecorder udf,iso9660 users,defaults 0 0
Note that it can mount either udf (CDRW) or iso9660 (CDROM). Other
options are also available (see man mount, or man fstab for details).
The udf filesystem is rewritable, and can be added to until the disk is
full. The iso9660 OTOH is read only. The system will not mount a CDROM
as writable, even it you specify it as such in fstab (The disk after all
is physically not writable).
If you manually create the mount point, and add the line to fstab, then
the mount point will remain and will be used each time a disk is
inserted. If you do not do that, then HAL/udev will automatically
create/remove the mount points as disks are inserted/unmounted.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "jdow" <jdow@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2006 5:09 PM
> Subject: Re: making cdroms read and write
>
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Charles Curley" <charlescurley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > On Sat, Sep 16, 2006 at 10:30:28AM -0500, Scott Berry wrote:
> >>
> >> I have a question concerning the fstab and mtab. How do I make
> >> sure that the cdroms are read write both and is there a way to do
> >> this in Gnome?
> >
> > As root, use any text editor to make changes to /etc/fstab. Never edit
> > /etc/mtab; that is reserved for the mount system.
> >
> > As for making CR-ROMs writable, don't bother. For the purposes of
> > mounting and /etc/fstab, they are read only. Mount will determine that
> > a CD is read only and mount it RO.
> >
> > Software that writes to one writes to the raw device, bypassing the
> > whole file system entirely. At that point, the device had better not
> > be mounted.
> >
> > <<jdow>> Charles, on the Amiga we had a way to appear to write to a
> > read-only style CDROM. It diverted the writes to a ram based or disk
> > based cache that was searched first before the CDROM was accessed for
> > read. Maybe this is the kind of tool the person is looking for.
> >
> > On another hand there are some utilities that will mount a CDRW as
> > a read/slow-write filesystem on Windows machines. I've never tried
> > to use one. The concept seems silly to ME. This might be what he is
> > looking at.
> >
> > On the gripping hand - maybe the concept of read-only physical
> > media has not penetrated somewhere it should.
> >
> > One of the three hands may fit the situation here. Maybe if the
> > gentle-person explained what he intended a little better he might
> > get more astute answers.
> >
> > {^_^}
> >
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