Re: [newbie] CDWR and Zip

[Axalon Bloodstone]

On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, John Aldrich wrote:

> On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, you wrote:
> >     /dev/hdc    /mnt/cdrw    iso9660   
> > ro,user,noauto,nosuid,noexec,nodev    0    0     
> >
> "ro" for a CDRW???? Doesn't that kind of defeat the purpose
> of a CDRW? :-)
> 

No, it's not. It actualy doesn't matter what you put there rw or ro.
Why you ask? because iso9660 states the format is readonly.
try mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom -o rw -t iso9660
now run mount, notice it's ro..

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