alan brown wrote:
I’ve looked through previous posts on this topic and the advice I found was to run dmesg | grep cdrom to find out where my cdrom is plugged in (hdb) and I tried symlinking /dev/dcrom to /dev/hdb. However, in the course of my experimenting I did rm –rf on the /cdrom directory, which I believe was where my cd drive was mounted. And I’m not sure what I need to do next to get things back in order.Er, I'm not sure what level you're at so forgive me if I state the obvious or miss your point...
The /etc/fstab file states that /dev/cdrom is mounted on /cdrom but I’m not sure what to do to get it re-mounted (if indeed it is unmounted)
Any help would be appreciated. My problem is high level enough that I’ve not been very effective with my google searches.
/cdrom is just a directory like any other, you can just recreate it using
mkdir /cdrom
The /etc/fstab file just says where things should be mounted, not where they are mounted. To actually mount a CD, when you put a new one in the drive, the command is
mount /dev/cdrom /cdrom
Then
umount /cdrom
when you remove it.
You may need to be root to run these. I guess the various GUIs have a means of doing these things too... Not sure about that though.
Hope that helps
Chris
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