[wellylug] Re: CDRW & DVD Mount Conflict?

[Tim Thomson]

Hi Adam,

I missed the start of the thread, so sorry if this has already been
covered.

On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 12:08:24AM +1200, Adam Bogacki wrote:
> 
> I have no 'dvd' entry in /dev so I used 'mkdir dvd' but keep getting the 
> message that
> 'mount point /dev/dvd does not exist'. Previously (following someone 
> from deb-user) I did
> 
> rm -rf /dev/dvd
> ln -s /dev/hdc /mnt/dvd

There are two separate things you need, the device, and the mount point.
A mount point is a directory, while the device is a special type of
file.
You want to mount things under /mnt (probably), and have devices in
/dev.

The instructions above link the device file to /mnt, which isn't what you
want.

Try this:

ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/dvd
to link the device, then do this:

rm -rf /mnt/dvd
mkdir /mnt/dvd
This creates the mount point.


Now you need an entry in fstab, something along the lines of
/dev/dvd        /mnt/dvd           iso9660 ro,user,noauto

Hope this helps?

Cheers,

Tim.