fstab question with DVD-ROM

[MASantangelo]

Okay... so I just installed Ogle (it works) and now I have a question...

FC2 detected my DVD-ROM/CD-RW as cdrom in fstab and Ogle defaults to /mnt/cdrom/ becasue of the detection.

Can I just add another line to fstab similar to cdrom but instead /mnt/dvd/ ?

/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0

is what it is now, can I just add

/dev/cdrom /mnt/dvd udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0

or do i have to change the line?

Thanks,
Mike

[worker201]

I'm not sure what Ogle is, but I do know that FC2 has no problems mounting a dvd into the folder /mnt/cdrom, using the fstab line for /dev/cdrom. I think referring to it as cdrom is just an outdated naming convention, and it doesn't seem to have any effect on the way the disc is read or handled.

[MASantangelo]

Ogle is a DVD player.

I noticed that FC2 was having problems with CDs, saying they're busy when I'm trying to unmount them. Feh.

Seriously though, will changing /mnt/cdrom to /mnt/dvd or just adding another line to reference /mnt/dvd affect my computer negatively?

[Void Main]

Here's what I have in my FC2 /etc/fstab:

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/dev/cdrom              /mnt/cdrom              udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/cdrom1             /mnt/cdrom1             udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/dvd                /mnt/dvd                udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0


I have a DVD burner as hdc and a CD burner as hdd. /dev/cdrom is a symbolic link to /dev/hdc, /dev/cdrom1 is a symbolic link to /dev/hdd, /dev/dvd is a symbolic link to /dev/cdrom and of course all three mount directories exist. It's probably not lying to you when it says it is busy when you try to unmount it. You can not be touching the disk when unmounting (including at a shell prompt cd'd into a directory on the CD). You might also try the "eject" command. To see what processes are touching the CD you should be able to use the "fuser" command.

Oh yeah, ogle works great on my system. You should be able to name your mounts just about anything you like although some things may look for /dev/dvd or /mnt/cdrom by default so it isn't a bad idea to leave them with that naming convention.

[MASantangelo]

voidmain again... Comes up big time.

Symbolic links did the trick!

Thanks.