On Sat, Feb 5, 2022 at 6:11 PM Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com> wrote: > > On Sat, 5 Feb 2022, Bill Barry wrote: > > > 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, > > The issue I have with writing an .iso to a DVD-R disk is the tools see the > optical drive as read only; not writable. The optical drive is not mounted. > > Regards, > > Rich
As Russell pointed out you do not even have the cdrom mounted to use the cdwrite tools. They will need permissions to access the devices, but those permissions do not come through mount. I have not done this in a while, but there is some group that you add your user to to give them permissions to do cd writing. Bill
