On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 01:54:37PM -0400, Sean wrote: > I just added a DVD burner to my system and am trying to figure out how > to setup the fstab. > > The device is showing up on acd1 but what file system type should be > specified?
This is typical of what sysinstall writes if a CD/DVD is found during installation: /dev/acd0 /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 The line isn't necessary, but it makes mounting optical media as simple as "sudo mount /cdrom" and "sudo umount /cdrom" assuming your filesystem is ISO-9660. FreeBSD CD/DVD support isn't as "user friendly" as Irix or MacOS. Maybe someone would like to create an Irix-like mediad to monitor the attaching and removing of media, and to act appropriately on those events? Haven't looked lately but possibly KDE and/or Gnome does this? The Irix mediad daemon I so fondly remember launched appropriate non-kernel userspace helpers as filesystem drivers. At least in the past it was too easy to create a corrupt 9660 disc which panics the 9660 kernel driver. A crashed user process isn't as critical. And its not as if any significant performance increase can be had with the code in the kernel. And then while I'm wishful thinking, a mediad should control whether the new disk (media) is to be privately mounted (say, in someone's ${HOME}/mount/), or publicly for everyone, added to webserver space, NFS, and/or SMB exports. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ======================================================================== Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"