fstab can contains anything that mount knows of (man mount)
if you want you can put there your disk partitions, cdroms, zip drives
... /proc ... nfs ... EVERYTHING.
and if you prefer you can make it empty and mount everything from
/etc/rc.d scripts ... (ugly !!)
with redhat (and possibly others) /etc/fstab is build during first
installation with all devices detected (cdrom included). maybe your
slackware thing has no cdrom in it because it did this incorrectly ...
pascal
-----Original Message-----
From: ggallup [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, May 20, 1999 7:59 AM
To: Mike Ricketts
Cc: Daniel Knapp; David Erdman; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: CD-R(RW)
On Mon, 17 May 1999, Mike wrote:
> On Mon, 17 May 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 16 May 1999, Daniel Knapp wrote:
> >
> > --skip--
> > >
> > > And don't write anything about /dev/sr0 in your fstab. That file is
only
> > > for harddrives and not for cdroms etc.
> > >
> > --skip--
>
> > /dev/scd0 /cdrom iso9660 noauto,user,ro
> >
> /dev/scd0 is exactly equivalent to /dev/sr0.
The question concerned the appropriateness of SCSI entries in /etc/fstab.
Nevertheless, on Slackware as of 3.6 there are no /dev/sr* device names.
Has some distribution gone this direction? The recent (June 1999) Linux
Journal has an article on Linux standards.
Cheers,
Gordon A. Gallup Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Lincoln, NE 68588-0111
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