Bug 149976 – fstab discussion needs more on burners, dvd drives, etc.

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• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description arthur_torrey 2006-10-03 10:47:57 UTC]

The discussion on /etc/fstab in the install manual seems a bit scanty, but one area that I see as a particular issue is support for removeable media.

The assumption seems to be that the system being installed just has a plain CD drive.  These days however, many (most?) users will have more powerful drives than that, either DVD drives or CD / DVD burners.  It would be helpful if you could give suggested lines for the different types of removeable media, or at least comment on them.

Looking at the sample file, it wouldn't hurt to put something in for floppies either.

I realize the purpose isn't to reproduce the fstab man page, but a bit more data wouldn't hurt.

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2006-10-03 11:09:26 UTC]

/dev/cdrom works for all optical drives, not just cdrom drives

the actual default fstab already contains an example line for floppy

[Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-10-03 12:10:47 UTC]

*** Bug 149984 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 3 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-10-03 12:10:54 UTC]

*** Bug 149985 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 4 nm (RETIRED) 2006-10-03 13:05:52 UTC]

There is little to no semantic difference between the label you assign to it -- it's pretty much arbitrary. On my system, I have a CDRW/DVD-ROM combo drive that is detected as /dev/cdroms/cdrom0, /dev/cdrom, /dev/hdc, and /media/cdrecorder. Any of these by themselves work, and any combination of names at mount time works just fine. No real difference between optical drives, short of SCSI/IDE distinguishments, which are already covered elsewhere.

There is nothing special about different kinds of drives, which is why we already have examples for multiple hard drives, an optical drive, a USB drive, and a floppy drive.