Re: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device.

[Geoff Hacker <geoff hacker gmail com>]

Hello David,

On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 14:21:21 -0400, David A. De Graaf <dad datix 2y net> wrote:
> This line has too many fields.  'man fstab' says there must be 6;
> you have 9.  It should be thus:
> 
>  /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0

That's because I copied the line out by hand. I did not have the
luxury of being able to copy and paste the text into an email. At the
time that I wrote that email, I did not even have internet access. I
certainly would not have been aware of the importance of the blank
spaces in the line.

> 
> But you used awk, not grep, to extract the line.  Why?

I knew how to use awk, not grep. 

> Awk might (but doesn't in this case) introduce confusion.

I did not know what, if any, confusion awk might introduce. 

> Grep is simpler and more precise in this instance, eg
> 
>        grep cdrom /etc/fstab

Sounds good, I'll try to remember it for next time.

Geoff