Subject: Re: audio CDs and other unlinuxy file types
From: Jim Cole (greyleaf@yggdrasill.net)
Date: Sat Nov 25 2000 - 16:48:25 MST
philippe tapon's bits of Sat, 25 Nov 2000 translated to:
>Linux mustn't and can't mount audio CDs, correct? Is there any way to
>fail-safe it? The freeze is way nasty. here is the line from my fstab:
>
>/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,ro,users 0 0
>
>I also get a nasty looking red [FAILED] during boot-up if there's no CD
>in
>the drive at all at the boot-up. Harmless, I guess.
Hi - Not sure about the freeze with audio CD's, but I don't believe your
/etc/fstab line is correct. As far as I know, 'auto' is not a valid fs
type; it is an option that says the device can be mounted when the -a
option is given (which results in the [FAILED] message if you don't have
appropriate media in the drive). Perhaps you meant to type autofs ?
I use
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro,user 0 0
and have never run into problems with the CD-ROM drive at boot time,
regardless of what was or wasn't in the drive. Specifying iso9660
should also prevent one from accidentally trying to mount an audio CD.
Jim
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