Joined: Mar 02, 2010 Posts: 1 Location: Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2010 8:34 pm Post subject: Questions about the mount cmd:
I was wondering how this works. Since installing Linux I have mostly used my CDROM under X and therefore had no need to use the mount command. Now reading these articles I thought I would try it out. So I logged into a tty as my user name and tried the command:
mount /media/cdrom
I got the error message:
mount: can't find /media/cdrom in /etc/fstab/ or /etc/mtab
So I changed to root and had a look in /media. There was a file in there that had the same name as the original volume name that windows had put on the CD I had in the drive. so I tried that name in place of /cdrom still same error.
Do I need to edit my fstab file? Or is there something else I am missing.
I am running OpenSuSE 11.2 on a Toshiba Tecra notebookwitha Core2 Duo T9400 2.53 GHz processor 4 GB RAM and a 180GB HDD with 1 swap and 3 ext4 partitions.
Joined: Jul 7, 2003 Posts: 1267 Location: Boise, ID, USA
Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2010 1:03 pm Post subject:
Greetings. From what you said, it looks like you may have tried to run the command without being root. Non-root users cannot perform administrative tasks such as mounting a file system (and in Linux, everything is considered a file system, including hardware). Hope that helps.
Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2010 8:41 pm Post subject: Re: Questions about the mount cmd:
Pigloo wrote:
I was wondering how this works. Since installing Linux I have mostly used my CDROM under X and therefore had no need to use the mount command. Now reading these articles I thought I would try it out. So I logged into a tty as my user name and tried the command:
mount /media/cdrom
I got the error message:
mount: can't find /media/cdrom in /etc/fstab/ or /etc/mtab
So I changed to root and had a look in /media. There was a file in there that had the same name as the original volume name that windows had put on the CD I had in the drive. so I tried that name in place of /cdrom still same error.
Do I need to edit my fstab file? Or is there something else I am missing.
I am running OpenSuSE 11.2 on a Toshiba Tecra notebookwitha Core2 Duo T9400 2.53 GHz processor 4 GB RAM and a 180GB HDD with 1 swap and 3 ext4 partitions.
If you can't find anything in /etc/fstab related to your cdrom drive, then a line in /etc/fstab will have to added. First make sure that the drive ISN'T there by reading the file and verifying that each /dev/hdx and/or /dev/sdx is accounted for. It's very unlikely that it ISN'T there.
Most likely you either used the wrong file path/name or the line for the cdrom doesn't have the user option, under options, that the one below does.
As this line from /etc/fstab was taken from a Debian machine my guess is that the correct path is /media/cdrom0. That's a zero after cdrom not a capital o.
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