On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, Cliff Sarginson wrote:

> > > > /dev/acd0c              /cdrom          cd9660  ro,auto         0       0
> > > > /dev/acd1c              /cdrom1         cd9660  ro,auto         0       0
> > > >
> > > > Looking at the man page, the last column indicates the fsck type, and 0 is
> > > > supposed to mean that the device doesn't need to be checked during
> > > > startup.  Am I doing something wrong, or is something broken?
> > > > 4.6.2-STABLE, BTW.
> > >
> > > I think you also want to make it  'noauto'  rather than 'auto'.
> > > With the auto, you are telling it to try and mount the device and
> > > since there is no disk in, it can't.
> >
> > Hmm.  I thought of that, but realistically wouldn't you WANT your cdroms
> > to be automount for just that reason - they're removable media, for
> > pete's sake.  I'm coming from a Solaris background, where this is handled
> > completely differently.
> >
> No,no. Automount makes no sense at all, it means you have to have a
> CD in there, also what if you are using a CD without a filesystem on
> it ? E.g. one you have dd'ed something to.

Ok, then.  Thanks very much for the help, guys!

KeS



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