fstab missing line

[Bob Goodwin]

Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 11:22 -0500, Jeff Vian wrote:
>   
>> On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 09:17 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote:
>>     
>>> Aaron Konstam wrote:
>>>       
>>>> On Sun, 2006-04-30 at 15:29 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote:
>>>>   
>>>>         
>>>>> Nader Mirzaee wrote:
>>>>>     
>>>>>           
>>>>>>     > Nader Mirzaee wrote:
>>>>>>     >> Hello all
>>>>>>     >>
>>>>>>     >> i seem to miss one line in the fstab in my FC5 machine . my cdrom
>>>>>>     >> drive doesn't function in linux .this is my fstab:
>>>>>>             
>> snip
>>
>>     
>>>>>>     ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>>>     could you tell me more about what you "changed"!
>>>>>>
>>>>>>       
>>>>>>             
>>>>> Yes I added:
>>>>>
>>>>> /dev/hdc /media/cdrecorder auto defaults 0 0
>>>>>
>>>>> and made a directory:
>>>>>
>>>>> /media/cdrecorder
>>>>>
>>>>> However this may not be the correct way to deal with the problem, it was 
>>>>> just my solution.
>>>>>     
>>>>>           
>>>> This is the whole point . You should not have to do that in FC5.
>>>> What function of CD access do you not see without that line in fstab?
>>>>   
>>>>         
>>> I don't recall the precise sequence of events but no doubt I attempted 
>>> to "mount /dev/hdc" and the cd to "/media/cdrecorder" as I am accustomed 
>>> to doing since FC4 and trying to look at a directory listing ...
>>>
>>> I had other odd things happen with this FC5 installation and thought it 
>>> was merely related to those peculiarities?  In fact I did the 
>>> installation twice since it did not offer me a chance to select the 
>>> applications I wanted?  I had installed FC5 from the same DVD on another 
>>> computer via my LAN connection while this one ran FC4 and that went as 
>>> expected, a normal install without problems.
>>>
>>>       
>> So did you do a clean install here?  or was it an upgrade?
>>
>> There are some inconsistencies that are seen when doing an upgrade
>> because not everything gets put in place new.  Old configuration files,
>> some of the binaries that do not get removed, etc.
>>
>> On my FC5 system done as a clean install the creation of the directories
>> and mounting of the cdrom gets done as expected. 
>>
>>
>>     
>>> Bob Goodwin   Zuni, Virginia   w2bod
>>>
>>>       
> Well something is clearly wrong with my machine. I did a clean install.
> I have two CD-s. One cd recorder and one just cd reader. Also a floppy. 
> But only a /media/cdrom was created and no automounting of data CD-s
> happens. So what is wrong do you all think?
>   
I don't know if anything is wrong, I don't think I want the computer
to auto-mount CD's?  Auto-mount seems like a feature for a consumer
device like a CD/DVD player, I usually have data, text, etc. on mine.  Maybe
I'm missing something?