> > And don't write anything about /dev/sr0 in your fstab. That file is only
> > for harddrives and not for cdroms etc.
> > 

> There is no reason not to add cdroms to /etc/fstab provided you give the
> noauto option so that they are not automatically mounted.  If you add:
> /dev/sr0      /mnt/cdrom      iso9660 noauto,ro       0 0
> to /etc/fstab, then you can just do mount /mnt/cdrom to mount it instead
> of having to specify the device on the mount command line.

Oh, that's new to me. I've always thought that you should only add
filesystems which are mounted automatically. And for a cd-rom-drive I've
thought you should always have a cd in it to have it added in the
/etc/fstab. Thanks for advice.

-Dan


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