FSTAB the nightmare

[minthaka]

HI,
I never saw such an idiot thing like fstab in SuSe 10.0! I have two PC's, and there are the same problems on both of them. After a certain time atter the installation the system won't mount automatically the DVD and CDROM.
I've made some corrections in fstab>

/dev/dvd /media/dvd auto unhide,ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0

and the same thing with cdrom. It helped for a while, but from time to time the system overrides my changes. Still if I type in console: mount /dev/dvd it works. BUT the man invented the wheel, and the GUI for easier use. I dislike console!
Is there any permanent solution for my problem ?

minthaka

[zsugiart]

I'm on SuSe 10.1 and I don't have this problem. I don't even know how the CD rom /DVD mounting works, I see the entries on /etc/fstab so wont be much of help. But here goes:

The line you put down in fstab:
/dev/dvd /media/dvd auto unhide,ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0
Was it there before?

Do you have mount call anywhere in any of the startup files? in your .bashrc, .profile, .login, .xsession, or whatnot?

From what I know, things in fstab are mounted even before you see the login prompt (I could be wrong). If you have 'corrected' the line and it's still not mounted, I'd google on DVD mounting problems.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=477755
'->might help??

[Cabhan]

I found some interesting links. Perhaps directly related to you:

http://www.suseforums.net/index.php?showtopic=26247

An AutoFS howto can be found at:

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Automount.html

[minthaka]

Well, before I got replies from you I changed the fstab configuration and now looks like:

/dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder subfs auto,fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iochars et=utf8 0 0

It seems to me that it works fine. But thanks for tips!