On Sat, Feb 5, 2022 at 5:33 PM Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com> wrote: > > On Sat, 5 Feb 2022, Russell Senior wrote: > > > You shouldn't need to reboot. > > ls -l /dev/sr0 > > Mine looks like: > > > > $ ls -al /dev/sr0 > > brw-rw----+ 1 root cdrom 11, 0 Feb 1 17:07 /dev/sr0 > > Russell, > > ll /dev/sr0 > brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 11, 0 Feb 5 14:33 /dev/sr0 > > If dd and k3b don't mount the drive where are they seeing that it's read > only if not from fstab? >
fstab is not the source of information for whether something is mounted or not. fstab is read by mount at boot time to know which drives to mount and how and where to mount them. It might also be read when you try to mount something later, but as you have noted, you can edit fstab all you want and if you don't then mount/remount the drives their mount status will not be changed by your edits. BIll
